Re: [TCLUG:14631] Video on monitor

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ry4an Brase wrote:

> I see some higher end video cards have an S-video in, but most of them
> are AGP (and my motherboard isn't).  Some TV tuner cards (couldn't care
> less about the actual tuning) have the inputs but they all advertise
> windows only functionality.  

Take a look at the Video4Linux project (sorry, I forgot the
URL). A heck of a lot of cards work fine with Linux. I use my webcam's
card's video-in to watch TV on the computer (I use a VCR as a tuner). I
don't know if the S-Video plugs work yet. 

I use XawTV in fullscreen mode sometimes, and quality is fine, if you
don't care about reception (: I haven't tried plugging the DVD into it
yet. Gets a bit choppy when the machine gets heavily loaded though.


-Yaron

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