Hi all, I have a Zoltrix TV-MAX tuner card, based on bt848. This works perfectly in linux, always has since I got the card. The image is not great, but then, I accepted that the card probably isn't the highest quality (my mostly bad experiences with zoltrix modems certainly helped in reaching this conclusion). It's nicely viewable, but not perticularly sharp or crisp. A bit like watching a video that's been played too many times over and over. The other night I tried it out the TV app in BeOS 5 Personal Edition, and was blown away by the quality of image - it's as good as the best TVs out there! Exactly the same hardware. I don't know precisely how to pinpoint the exact cause of the quality loss in linux. I did try various tv apps - xawtv, motv, kwintv - and all looked the same, so I guess it must be something (a setting hopefully) in the bttv driver or video4linux somewhere. So my question: are there ways to improve image quality for TV cards? The graphics card is a Radeon 7500. I'm using the AV out from my VCR, as it looks better than using the card's own tuner. Thanks Hans
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 07:04 pm, H du Plooy wrote:
So my question: are there ways to improve image quality for TV cards?
Try tvtime. It's all I use these days. I made an RPM for SuSE 8.2: ftp://ftp.funktronics.ca/pub/rpm/SuSE-8.2/i586-f/tvtime-0.9.8.5-1.i586.rpm It's also available via apt-get. Basically, it was designed to get the best looking picture out of V4L devices and has a ton of options for different kinds of video. You can read more at http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RQJO+FOexA3koIgRAqPpAJ99bRPMIJwG46pCX1yo1aR+z02ljACeJsje w2r/rUdKle6yDszXggOvWOM= =Xl1k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:33, James Oakley wrote:
Basically, it was designed to get the best looking picture out of V4L devices and has a ton of options for different kinds of video. You can read more at http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
Thanks James! This is really much nicer. By the way, the sourceforge site has a SuSE 8.2 rpm on. Thanks Hans
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:33, James Oakley wrote:
Basically, it was designed to get the best looking picture out of V4L devices and has a ton of options for different kinds of video. You can read more at http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
Thanks James! This is really much nicer. By the way, the sourceforge site has a SuSE 8.2 rpm on.
Thanks Hans
Anybody know if an RPM for Suse 8.1 exists? If so where? Or does the src tarball just compile fine without needing to grab a hundred other packages? Thanks, Jim
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:07, Jim Norton wrote:
Anybody know if an RPM for Suse 8.1 exists? If so where? Or does the src tarball just compile fine without needing to grab a hundred other packages?
Thanks, Jim
Dunno, Jim, but I think the 8.2 rpm should work just fine. There doesn't seem to be anything special about it. I didn't have to install any deps either Hans
On Friday 22 August 2003 14:07, Jim Norton wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:33, James Oakley wrote:
Basically, it was designed to get the best looking picture out of V4L devices and has a ton of options for different kinds of video. You can read more at http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
Thanks James! This is really much nicer. By the way, the sourceforge site has a SuSE 8.2 rpm on.
Thanks Hans
Anybody know if an RPM for Suse 8.1 exists? If so where? Or does the src tarball just compile fine without needing to grab a hundred other packages?
-- Marc Christensen http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=9502
On Friday 22 August 2003 14:07, Jim Norton wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:33, James Oakley wrote:
Basically, it was designed to get the best looking picture out of V4L devices and has a ton of options for different kinds of video. You can read more at http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
Thanks James! This is really much nicer. By the way, the sourceforge site has a SuSE 8.2 rpm on.
Thanks Hans
Anybody know if an RPM for Suse 8.1 exists? If so where? Or does the src tarball just compile fine without needing to grab a hundred other packages?
You can always do a 'rpm --rebuild <srpm>' which worked great for me with the 8.2 version. -- Marc Christensen http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=9502
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