> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:50:37PM -0800, Auji Atwal wrote: > > Tobias, I've been wanting to get a recommendation as well > > from the list members. > > > > Please pass on to me any information that you receive. Thanks. > > > > ---- Tobias Henle <tobias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > HI, > > > i know this is not one of the intelligent questions but, > > > > > > do you have any favourite tv-card which uses less cpu, makes high quality > > > graps and works fine with v4l? > I don't know about CPU usage, but I really like my DC10+. I had a > Huappauge WinTV Go (the low-end one, sells Stateside for about $50 > through common retailers), and it was good, but it doesn't have > compression, so you need a really fast disk to grab full frame data. > The DC10+, though there is a lot more work (compared to bt8x8) to get > it running, can grab full frame data on a humble P166MMX with a PIO4 > hard drive. I got mine at Best Buy for $80, and I feel very satisfied > with my investment. I'll second this. I bought one of each flavour of the bt8x8 based Huappauge cards and more recently the Pinnacle miroVideo Studio DC10+. I (we) found there to be a lot of interaction with drivers and streamers and compression formats to sort out, with the result that there were two (mostly) working options, the bt8x8 with xawtv/streamer and the DC10+ with lavrec. xawtv/streamer had major syncronsiation problems when asked to work 24 hours a day, I don't think it was a disk speed problem (I get 25 Mbyte/sec and even set up a RAM disk to try to sort it out). The DC10+ and lavrec seems much more stable and also takes much less CPU, which is a bonus. The latest zoran driver (0.7c) is easy to install, at least by hand, 0.7 had obscure Makefile problems. Mjpeg was much harder to get right (Redhat 7.0), I'll append my notes in case they are of use to others. What make was your DC0+ for $80 (mine cost about 140 GBP)? Tony Robinson Notes for compiling mjpeg cd /usr/local/softsound/pkg/mjpeg wget http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.1.8-1.i386.rpm wget http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.1.8-1.i386.rpm rpm -Uh SDL-1.1.8-1.i386.rpm SDL-devel-1.1.8-1.i386.rpm [ also install rpm -i xforms-0.89-2.i686.rpm xforms-devel-0.89-2.i686.rpm ] for name in jpeg-mmx-0.1.3 libmovtar-0.1.2 quicktime4linux-1.2njpg mjpegtools-1.3b3 ; do wget --passive-ftp http://download.sourceforge.net/mjpeg/${name}.tar.gz zcat ${name}.tar.gz | tar xvf - done cd jpeg-mmx ./configure make CC=kgcc sed 's/libjpeg./libjpeg-mmx./g' Makefile > Makefile-mmx make -f Makefile-mmx CC=kgcc install mv /usr/local/lib/libjpeg-mmx.mmx.a /usr/local/lib/libjpeg-mmx.a cd ../quicktime ./configure make CC=kgcc cd ../libmovtar-0.1.2 ./configure make CC=kgcc make CC=kgcc install cd ../mjpegtools-1.3b3 # don't use --with quicktime - it is broken ./configure apply patch... make make install /usr/local/bin/sdl-config
