Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > David McBride wrote: > > I have a WinTV Go card in a Manrdake 9.1 system useing Xawtv. > > Hardware is a P4 2.4 GHz and 256MB RAM. I am using bttv 0.9.12 and > > v4l2. I want to be able to record video for streaming. Right now > > the WinTV Go card is giving poor quality (grainy or blocky) when > > there is movement. I have noticed that the bigger the picture the > > less blocky it is. I want to be able to stream to low bandwidth > > usres, so I need a small window. Can anyone tell me if I need to look > > into a better capture card or to look into software issues? > > > > Thanks, David > > Go for software image reduction. With a P4-2.4 you should not have any > performance problems: here we do real-time MPEG1 encoding from 2 > cards, including spatial decimation by 2 on a P4-2.4 with 512MB. HTH. > > BTW is your WinTV-GO one of the 'old' 878-based or one of the 'new' > based on the 88x? I might have missed the announcement of the 88x > driver. > The cx88xx driver is contained in the video4linux snapshots from http://bytesex.org/snapshots. I use it for my WinTV-FM card on an EPOX 8KTA3+ (VIA KTA133A chip set). Both video and radio work. regards, Dirk -- _____________________________________________________________________ Dirk Weigenand mailto:Dirk.Weigenand@xxxxxxxxxxx SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com RISC: Relegate Important Stuff to Compiler
