Re: xawtv

I didn't want to do that much work on this - it was just a flyer to see
if I could use this setup to replace the tv in my bedroom... OK, I know
I'm gonna struggle with mythtv

;-)

Craig

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 15:02, Bryce C wrote:
> 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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