Derek L Davies wrote:
daniel jircik <pannomat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
It runs Lindows which is a scaled back linux that they then try to sell
you on a software subscription service.
Lindows is debian based and apt-get works after the default
install. I haven't found anything "scaled back", unless you mean
that it's not configurged well by default. If you know Debian then
it's easy to do the config.
My cheapo All-in-Wonder board worked right away (ok I probably had
to load a module and maybe do a bit of other config) with it, except
that everything is B&W for me right now (haven't had time to look
further). This is a stock Walmart/Microtel $200 machine. IMHO this
is an excellent all around machine for the money; it's not really
well suited to video, but you can get by with it. So, sorry this is
not the candiate for easiest/most complete, but I had to mention
that it's not bad if you just want a cheap machine to watch TV on.
And record TV? Have you done any capturing? Can you capture without
dropping frames?
Or, are there any v4l cards (that are cheap!) that do hardware
compression on the boards, to take the strain from the CPU?
Thanks,
Michael
