Re: Is a graphics board needed with WinTV?

[Yurij Sysoev <winix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> What is the role of the graphics board with the WinTV-GO? If we remove 
> the Nvidia, I realize xawtv and other playback software will no longer 
> work, but would video captures with, say, FFMPEG, still work?

All that you really have to do for asking to this question - just 5 
minutes, screwdriver, and some options in /etc/lilo.config (like 'append 
"console=/dev/ttyS0 CONSOLE=/dev/ttyS0"), /etc/inittab and BIOS setup - 
for disabling BIOS test stop on graphical board's test :-)

Regards,
Yurij