[wellylug] DSE & Linux

[Vincent Cox]

Ewen McNeill wrote:

>In message <4084D34E.5080707 at paradise.net.nz>, Vincent Cox writes:
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>>I agree, putting the penguin on the box can be a form of false 
>>advertising.  I bought a Flyvideo 3000 Video capture/tv card which had
>>a penguin on the box, it came with a disc with some kernel modules on 
>>it.  No instructions on how to patch a kernel, and despite all my 
>>efforts I could not get it going under 2.4 series kernel.  
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>I also have one of these cards from DSE, and it will work with a 2.4
>kernel if you patch in v4l2 (which is built into Linux 2.6) and the
>driver for the chipset (philips saa3174) -- both available from the
>driver author's bytesex.org site.  It's working well for me on a patch
>2.4.25 kernel, give or take reception issues with just rabbit ears,
>and encoding speed issues (a Duron 700 is fairly strained for real time
>encoding -- I can do about 17 fps rather than 25 fps, and have to turn
>off some useful mencoder options to be able to keep up).
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Whats the quality of you recordings like ?

I originally bought this card so I can plug my camcorder into to 
computer and make some home dvd's, but so far
I find the recorded video quality to be poor.  I am using Xawtv to do 
the recordings.

What mencoder options are you using ?