On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:08:40AM +0200, shlomo solomon wrote: > 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
Good idea. > 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 don't know about saa7134 but with bttv you also have to load tuner.o with a correct 'type='. > - 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. While I recommend you do move to 640x480 while watching TV (which should not be too hard - a Ctrl-Alt-+ with a well-configured X), you can try the '-remote' option of xawtv and see if it works better (but much slower, unless on a fast machine). > > 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] Didi ================================================================= 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]
