Eric Jorgensen wrote: > > "Minson, John M. [Contractor]" wrote: > > > > Is it unreasonable to think I can get bttv(as of Kernel 2.4) , xawtv (3.3) > > to work as well as Win98 and WebTV on the same set of hardware ? When I say > > 'work as well' I'm refering to the size and quality of the picture not the > > bells and whistles of the app . > > No, but it's unreasonable to think it'll be easy. I never have been > able to get a picture bigger than 640x480, even tho I'm certian my video > card is modern enough to scale it (Matrox G200). A lot implies that it > should be possible, I have no idea what piece is missing. > > - Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list There is a driver for the matrox card that handle scaling but is for RRG addon card for video. With this driver all the scaling of the g200 is used. There was once support for output a memory area to the screen scaled but it has not been used in a long time. This was done to support livid stuff. If this would be of help I can look into supporting it again. There is not app that using bttv code for grabbing/display images and known how to scaling v4l interface on a graphic card.
