On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:40:34AM -0500, Roger wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 12:33, mikepolniak wrote: > > I just installed a Pinnacle Studio PCTV Pro and the picture quality is not very good > > with my cable-tv feed. Poor color and flicker. Some stations look better > > than others (but not the quality of the average color TV). Most stations are good > > quality black and white, except for the annoying flicker. I have the same model and the only complaint I have is it seems the brightness isn't quite right and I haven't been able to adjust it to my likeing with xawtv. It seems like white and near white are both white which makes some things impossible to see. I have one of the Reveal tv500 tuner cards which I haven't re-tuned to work with the new X server, so I don't really have anything to compare with. I also have been experimenting with capture with mp1e and what I haven't figured out is what the highest capture resolution is. I would have to thank Brian J. Murrell for mentioning it on the list, once I found it, it didn't take any time to get it installed and working (compared to about all other aspects of the tv tuner). When I capture at say 640x480 it is interlaced (and my K6-2 300Mhz can't compress it real time). xawtv also captures captures interlaced images no matter what and zapping only seems to want to capture at 320x240. The tv card box claims 1500x1125, I know TV doesn't have that resolution, but I wouldn't expect it to be interlaced. I'm capturing cable or from VCR tapes. Is there anyway I can have the tv card tell me how many lines of resolution it is pulling in? > alias char-major-81 bttv > options bttv gbuffers=32 card=52 pll=0 radio=0 > > (gbuffers greatly helps when recording with this card) When I add that option I get, mp1e:v4l.c:96: Failed to VIDIOCSYNC (22, Invalid argument) -- +---------------------------------+ | David Fries | | dfries@xxxxxxxxxxxx | | http://fries.net/~david/pgp.txt | +---------------------------------+
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