Programs such as MythTV use XV to resize the image to your screen size.
Xawtv just displays the raw image from the capture card.
Also, MythTV is awesome.
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 14:38, Craig White wrote:
> For S & G's I bought one of the Hauppage WinTV cards yesterday (Fry's
> $49) stuck it in this morning and got it to work with minimal fuss.
> Turns out Fedora had xawtv already installed and kudzu recognized the
> hardware and installed the module for it automatically.
>
> BTW, apt-get dist-upgrade worked very well from RH 9 to Fedora / 561
> packages - approximately 2.5 hours (had to go back and get 5 packages
> that timed out)
>
> Anyway, one of the intentions was to discover suitability for replacing
> the tv in my bedroom with this - so I really didn't care much about pvr
> (mythtv) but I thought I would get full screen on this 15" LCD screen -
> xavtv -v 2 -f (verbose logging and full screen) gives me this message...
>
> ioctl: VIDIOCGCAP(name="BT878(Hauppauge (bt878))";type=0xeb
> [CAPTURE,TUNER,OVERLAY,CLIPPING,FRAMERAM,SCALES];channels=4;audios=1;maxwidth=768;maxheight=480;minwidth=48;minheight=32): ok
>
> Which seems to track with what I am seeing - only about 768 x 480 pixel
> image in full screen (rest of the screen has a blacked out border). Are
> there any reasonably cheap TV cards that will fill 1024 x 768 ???
>
> Craig
>
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