On Sunday 17 Oct 2004 01:59, Jack wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:44 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I don't have a tv card, but I needed xawtv to work so that I could work > > with capturing from a camcorder. I had great problems getting it to > > work, and it turned out to be the need for a local config file that was > > missing. Various people told me to get xawtv going first, then once that > > was working I could try other TV programs. It may be worth doing that > > yourself. If you need it I'll post the local config file that I use for > > xawtv. You can then adapt it to your needs. The problem is that without > > a model you haven't a clue what is needed. > > > > Anne > My config file - stored as .xawtv in /home/anne:
[global] ratio = 4:3 freqtab = europe-west pixsize = 80 x 24 pixcols = 8 jpeg-quality = 75 keypad-ntsc = off keypad-partial = off osd = yes osd-position = 30 , 20 use-wm-fullscreen = no [defaults] input = svideo norm = pal capture = over > Installed Xawtv and got a msg that "no tv card was detected". I have a > Nvidia with video in... > Have you got a NVidia driver installed? The basic one with the distro will not be enough. Many people know a great deal more about NVidia drivers than I do. For that part I would suggest that you install a downloaded driver according to NVidia's instructions (you will need kernel-source installed) and then start a new thread with NVidia in the title. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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