Re: Quickcam VCt

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:24:00 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> try a bt848 based card like the hauppauge wintv which costs around $100
> and any ntsc video source (or the wintv with camera model). in addition to
> being a decent capture device with reasonable support under linux, see:
>
> http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
>
> it means you can also watch tv on your linux box.

Yeah. However on some motherboards at least with that driver watching TV
is the only thing it is useful for -- I don't know if it's PCI hardware
problem or bttv driver, but on some boxes it produces an image with some
sequences of non-updated pixels. I am still trying to find out what it is,
it works perfectly on other boxes.

--
Alex

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