It locks up mostly from starting in overlay... sometimes I forget to use the -noxv, or -remote... solved that problem with a 1 line script.. it also locks sometimes tuning in channels that wont come in. I changed my tuner from 5 to 8 (8 is actually the right one... Hopefully it wont lock. The load on x is like %30, and about %20 on xawtv which really slows thing (especially when moving and resizing the tv window). Under window98 it was much slower, peoples lips continued to move after they stop talking... which is kinda like watching dub'd movies. There was also a lot of stairstepping, under linux its much smoother, but the remote control doesnt work... however I can actually change channels with the scrollwheel or the keyboard :) I wanted to try kwintv, but I dont have it (I only have disk 1 and 2 of mandrake 8. I would like to try 8.2 if someone wants to bring me a set on thursday :) I have a crappy sis620 onboard agp video... but the motherboard only has 1 slot, so I cant put better video, and the tvtuner, unless I get a USB tvtuner... I want to capture video with the sytem, under windows, it locked the computer at about 3 minutes of recording... Id like to do 1/2 hour at a time atleast... but it will take some trickery since it records avi's which are huge! I want mpeg (which will increase my load dramaticly). anyrate... we are boring the others on the list with this.... Later Ill mess with tv via remote (maybe on the laptop... ) and text tv ... but Ive wasted a lot of time this week on goofy stuff... I got to get real work done :(
Jamie On Monday 08 April 2002 14:24, you wrote: > Congrats!! I've *never* had xawtv lock up my computer though... > I previously used by bttv card on a K6-2 350MHz, with no speed problems, > but that also used overlay. Are you using a relatively recent kernel > and xfree? PAL is definately *not* the setting you want, unless you > hook up european or other non-US hardware to your machine; all our > (national) signals are scanning at NTSC framerate. > One thing I really appreciate about bttv is that you see the entire TV > picture, whereas a lot of TV's have moulding around the edge of the > screen... esp. noticable on channels like CNN headline news or CSPAN, > which pack dynamic info around the edges of their broadcast. > Even without overlay mode, though, I don't see why a 550MHz box would > have *any* problems just watching the tuner... I could guess you're also > running the folding@home client; if so try stopping that for a bit... > I've noticed that it doesn't always throttle itself as nicely as I'd > like; especially when doing something that spawns many processes (not > that bttv does tho). Enjoy! > > PS - Do your mobo have an AGP slot, Jamie? (2x/4x?)
