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G400 Rainbow and Linux
Hi Guys,
I have an older machine Pent 233, 800~ meg RAM (RAM seems more important than CPU most of the time) with a G400 and a Rainbow runner card. I am playing with SUSE Linux. I am trying to get TV reception going with these cards using Linux. Is this too hard? Linux newbie Gorby |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:54:18 +1030, Gorby wrote:
Hi Guys, I have an older machine Pent 233, 800~ meg RAM (RAM seems more important than CPU most of the time) with a G400 and a Rainbow runner card. I am playing with SUSE Linux. I am trying to get TV reception going with these cards using Linux. Is this too hard? Linux newbie Gorby This is kind of late, but a P-233 might not have enough horsepower to do any sort of real-time video. My Celeron-533 barely keeps up... Other than that, you should do a google search on video4linux, and see if the chipset in the matrox card is supported. Mostly likely it's a BT878, in which case you need to have the bt878 module loaded, and then try xawtv.... |
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Captain Dondo wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:54:18 +1030, Gorby wrote: Hi Guys, I have an older machine Pent 233, 800~ meg RAM (RAM seems more important than CPU most of the time) with a G400 and a Rainbow runner card. I am playing with SUSE Linux. I am trying to get TV reception going with these cards using Linux. Is this too hard? Linux newbie Gorby This is kind of late, but a P-233 might not have enough horsepower to do any sort of real-time video. My Celeron-533 barely keeps up... Other than that, you should do a google search on video4linux, and see if the chipset in the matrox card is supported. Mostly likely it's a BT878, in which case you need to have the bt878 module loaded, and then try xawtv.... I understand that the G200 Marvel is the best bet from Matrox for a low-powered video machine--the G200 IIRC had hardware encoding. I could never get the G400 Marvel to record and playback satisfactorily on a C1000. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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