Re: [expert] 2 TV questions
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:54, J Herzfeld wrote: My picture is pretty good, but not great. In full screen it looks a bit grainy. In am running 1200x1000 (appx) in 16bit (I cant remember exactly since I am not at my linux box now) Don't forget, TV has terrible resolution (worse than 640x480), so when scaled up to 1280x1024 (or thereabouts...) it'll look pretty terrible. And as a bonus, you'll get to see all of the artifacts that make analog transmission lose, not to mention any ghosting caused by impedence mismatching in the cable path. I run my tv card at native tv resolution, and zoom X down to 640x480 and live with the black border around the picture. It doesn't look too bad that way. The hard line is, if you want a tv picture to look really good, you're better off watching it on a TV. :^( -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 2 TV questions
Background ATI TV wonder VE card =64(?) tuner type= 17 attached to cable TV Soundblaster Live sound card Program being used xawtv 3.58(?) First one is off topic, but maybe someone here knows. Is there a maximum length cable run before the TV signal gets degraded? The run from the junction inside the house to my Linux box is 125 ft (I do have a lot of slack so I could shorten this by 50 ft or more). I also have cables running to 2 televisions. Do these runs get included in the maximum allowable lenght? My picture is pretty good, but not great. In full screen it looks a bit grainy. In am running 1200x1000 (appx) in 16bit (I cant remember exactly since I am not at my linux box now) 2. Sound. Sound works, but it doesnt seem to be controlled by xawtv. I use the kmix to control the volume. The mute control in xawtv and the volume controls do nothing to sound levels. The problem is that when I quit the xawtv, the sound keeps playing! The only things I load in modules.conf is the card and the tuner. I dont have anything for tvmixer or tvaudio Thanks!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 TV questions
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, J Herzfeld wrote: Background ATI TV wonder VE card =64(?) tuner type= 17 attached to cable TV Soundblaster Live sound card Program being used xawtv 3.58(?) First one is off topic, but maybe someone here knows. Is there a maximum length cable run before the TV signal gets degraded? The run from the junction inside the house to my Linux box is 125 ft (I do have a lot of slack so I could shorten this by 50 ft or more). I also have cables running to 2 televisions. Do these runs get included in the maximum allowable lenght? My picture is pretty good, but not great. In full screen it looks a bit grainy. In am running 1200x1000 (appx) in 16bit (I cant remember exactly since I am not at my linux box now) I have the same cards (both TV Wonder VE and SB Live). The picture is definitely a problem with the card itself, because an All-In-Wonder 128 using the same cable looks perfect. I think I paid $19US after rebate for the card, so it wasn't a huge mistake. 2. Sound. Sound works, but it doesnt seem to be controlled by xawtv. I use the kmix to control the volume. The mute control in xawtv and the volume controls do nothing to sound levels. The problem is that when I quit the xawtv, the sound keeps playing! Try using the Line Level control instead of the volume control. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
