On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 around 09:24:52 -0800, Jon Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, 28 October 2000, Justin Schoeman wrote:
>
> > > I want to do distribution-quality video capture with my bt878 or Zoran 36120 (which I can't get to work at the moment), and then put that on a VCD format media. Am I asking too much to get NTSC-spec MPEG1 from this/these hardware card/s?
> >
> > The Zoran should be easy? Although I seem to rmember it only being
> > capable of compressed capture.
>
> I'm not clear on the specifics, but XawTV won't even work with the Zoran
> 36120 driver in -test9, and Pauline's drivers won't compile agianst late
> -test? kernels. It's ugly.
Yes, its too bad somebody changed MAP_NR without going through the drivers. Its
no real biggie to do it yourself...
> From what I've been able to gather, the Zoran
> would be able to get the frames at full size in full speed more reliably,
> but I may have misinterpreted my data. The 36120, by the way, does not
> do any compression on it's own. You have to have another Zoran chip that
> is made for mjpeg on the card, which I do not.
Indeed. the 36057 and consorts do jpeg compression, the 36120 is only
a PCI bridge to your favorite memory region.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink
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