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From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
To: "'eddie@silk.net'" <eddie@silk.net>
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Subject: RE: Which TV tuner card?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:36:11 -0000 
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Eddie Lawhead wrote:

>Does anyone have any experience with TV Tuner cards under FreeBSD? I have
>a friend that I am trying to convince to use FreeBSD rather than Linux.
>He just wants to know if the Win TV Card will work.  If not what about the
>ATI All In Wonder?
>
>Thanks for your assistance,
>
>Eddie

I think someone pointed out the FXTV application. Well, I have a Hauppauge
WinTV card, and it's not without it's problems. I'm running 2.2.7-Release
and while the kernel finds the card just great, the TX app (FXTV) only seems
to update the TV picture when some other graphics are overlapping it.

For example, if I move the corner of another window (eg. an xterm) so that
it overlaps a small part of the TV window, then it works fine. As soon as
nothing overlaps the TV window, the TV picture freezes. It may be because I
only have a crappy Stealth64. I remember the windows95 drivers reporting
that this card only works in 'primary' mode, and not buffered mode, or
something similar, so It may just be my card, and not entirely FXTV's fault.

Regards,
Jeff




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