Re: xawtv

Yeah, the problem with LCDs over CRTs is that they run a native mode resolution
and in reality you have to interpolate a lesser resolution up to that or the LCD
will just not use all the screen.

> 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

>>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 ???
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