[wellylug] Video Catpure device in Linux

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 13:36 +1200, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> so normally it would take the audio and video from the tuner and combine 
> them together - currently under Linux I need a separate audio tuner?
> 
no. you just need to connect a 3.5mm - 3.5mm stereo jack lead between
the audio out of the tv-tuner into your sound card. 
> The machine, if I do get one, it was going into was a
> Pentium III - 500mhz machine, (from /proc/cpuinfo - 448.058)
> 
> If the encoding is done in Software then his box will not be fast enough 
> to do real-time encoding will it? or does it do MPEG4 encoding 
> real-time, but 1 and 2 in software?

no such luck.  mpeg 1 2 and 4 are all done in software.  That chipset
doesn't support hardware encoding.
> 
> 
> Centurion Computer Technology Ltd wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:26 +1200, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>I am looking at getting a TV at nywhere from MSI.
> >>http://www.msicomputer.com/product/netpc/netpc_detail.asp?model=TV@nywhere_Master
> >>
> >>They appear, from what google has said, to be based on the CX23883 Chipset..
> >>
> >>The card boasts MPEG4 Real-time encode TV programs and
> >>Scheduled Recording(MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4)..
> > 
> > I believe only in software, not hardware.  
> > 
> >>Just wondering if anyone has had any success with this card/chipset in 
> >>Linux?
> > 
> > video works in 2.6 series kernel except 2.6.11 under debian.  You need
> > to use the external audio connector.  It's supposed to be capable of
> > audio on the i2c bus which I can't test at the moment as the 2.6.11
> > debian kernel doesn't have it compiled in.
> > 
> >>
> 
> 
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