Thanks, Justin. I just wanted to confirm it's most likely a hardware failure, before I replaced it. I've just ordered an STB DesktopTV card (Bt848, TV/FM, S-Video) from computergeeks.com for $37, thanks to whoeveer posted that link. Can't go wrong at that price! I assume it'll work with bttv. :-) Ben Justin Schoeman wrote: > > Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > > > Hi Justin, > > > > I've attached a picture of myself I just snapped with xawtv. > > > > You can see that actually there's "ringing" off the edge of my head as > > well as off the left of the picture. > > > > Does this look like what you've seen before? > > > > FWIW my PC otherwise seems fine. > > No, sorry - this is different from what I thought you described. This > definitely looks like the agc is falling apart. One test you could try, > is to use bttv2, then run vidpanel. Turn off all the AGCs, and use the > colour controls to set it by hand. See if you still get the distortion. > > If the distortion goes away, then it is probably the AGCs, which would > probably not be feasible to fix. It could also be the external > capacitors - sometimes cleaning the board even helps... > > Good luck! > > -justin
