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  1. 05-16-2005 #1
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    TV card success ?

    from reading many posts here regarding TV cards, I've gathered that I'm not the only one who has had some issues getting this to work. I was just wondering which TV viewing program has yielded better results for any of you, and what card you use.
    I have an ATI TV wonder and have tried many prograsms with mixed results, all falling short of my definition of success.
    any advice, opinions, feedback, info. etc. is appriciated!
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    I use a BTTV based TV Tuner. It works great using any application. KDETV is nice as a computer program/TV viewer, but I prefer TV Time. It's the most TV like in functionality.

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    TvTime is good, I have a ATI TvWonder/VE and it works great, you have to make sure to have everything configured in the control center first though.
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    this is very encouraging, as I has a tv wonder ve also , which has the booktree bttv chip.
    I will play around with the config. can you give me some pointers on setting this up, because I thought I had toyed with all the settings there were. from memory, the "configure module"
    button in the mcc lists many options, but where can I find the various appropriate arguments
    to give this?

    sweet!
    thanks!
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    This might help:
    http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/BTTV.html

    Most of the install using Mandrake went pretty smoothly. I posted notes at lfo as I went, search for bttv using my username and you should find it. I had to make several adjustments to the pll option to get color.

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    the color was my final problem too!... I'll check it out
    THANKS!
    do you record with it, and what format do you use?
    I have a ton of vhs that are getting worse every day and I want to digitalize them before it's too late. the quality is already pretty bad, so as long as it does not get worse, space is more important than resolution.

    cool.
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    I have not recorded anything as of yet, but it's on the todo list. From what I've read thus far, mencoder is the way to go:

    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html

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