On Thursday 16 January 2003 19:30, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > One more thing - about quality: I could barely see anything with the > card as-is. I bought a cable-signal-amplifier (around 100 NIS at home- > center), and with it most channels are fine. A notable exception is > channel 3, which is also of lower quality in a real TV. I think this is
After reading this comment on signal quality, I decided to try a few more experiments on the non-functional FlyVideo2000 before buying a new bt8* card. Since I made some proghress and found real differences between the way the card works under Linux and Windows, I think this is still, at least partially, on topic. Here's what I did: Instead of buying a cable-signal-amplifier as Yedidyah suggested, I hooked the card up to a VCR and tred it on my machine and my wife's Windows machine. Here are the results: Windows: - Good reception but no colour - No audio. - The bundled software allows me to change window size or use as full screen. Linux: - After modprobe saa7134 I got an icon on the desk-top and clicking it gave me an excellent colour picture (as opposed to black-and-white on Windows), so this is better than Windows. - Here too there's no audio. - I can only enlarge the window to about 2/3 of the height and 2/3 of the width of the screen. Choosing full screen gives me a window of the same size (not a full screen) on a black background. I tried changing resolution to 640x480 and the TV picture then filled the screen, but this is obviously not a solution I want to use - I run at 1024x768. The fact that there's no audio on Windows or Linux led me to believe that maybe I'd connected someting wrong, but I don't think this is the case since the FM radio tuner on the card does work (I only tried on Windows, but that does prove the wires are connected properly). Any comments on the audio and resolution problems would be appreciated. TIA BTW - I also tried Kwintv as an alternative to xawtv, but there were so many error messages (and no help file), that at the moment, I don't see any point wasting time on it. The front-end is much more polished than xawtv, but if it doesn't even detect the TV device, this alpha software is not yet ready. But, based on good experience with KDE, I think when the bugs get fixed, this will be a good program. -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.3) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
