Hi John, >> I can't see what advantage 3 x PCI-X 66MHz capture cards have over 3 x >> 3.3V >> PCI capture cards that can also fit in the PCI-X slots. > > In which case I should word my query better ;) > > What 3.3v PCI cards to people like under linux?
Bt878 based cards would be the preferred ones, unfortunately they are getting difficult to buy as they have been superseded by the Conexant 2388x (aka cx88) based cards or some other chips. It was only recently (kernel 2.6.10) that the V4L compatibility layer of the cx88 V4L2 driver started to work with vic, with earlier versions, vic would crash. Currently, the default contrast, brightness, hue and saturation settings are wrong for the cx88 driver as you end up getting a very dark picture in vic, to get a descent picture you need to adjust all 4 of the settings (unfortunately the settings get reset each time the cx88 driver is reloaded). AGTk has no sliders for the contrast, brightness, hue and saturation settings, I was thinking of releasing a modified VideoService and VideoProducer service with these 4 sliders for the next Fedora AGTk RPMs that I release. I also needed to do a simple modification to the vic source code to handle the S-video input correctly for the cx88 based Hauppauge WinTV card. Doug
