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To: Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net>
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi,
For whatever is worth saving images over here is almost instantaneous.

rgb16 converts the image to ppm format . In your case, I would modify
rgb16.c to just dump the raw frame to disk. 

Once you managed to get a video source connected to
your STB WinTV, try running tv.

I am definitely interested on how the driver works in your system since
I have not heard of anyone using the video capture drivers on any
such systems 8)


And, sorry to force you guys to upgrade. Is just that  I don't have the
bandwith to support old kernels.



	Have fun,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Thomas Arnold :
> After the machine I have the STB WinTV card in was upgraded to 2.2-Gamma (
> thanks to Jamie ) the card is detected fine and the device is created.
> 
> Currently since I'm not in the room with the machine I can't hook a camera
> up to it, but, I'm getting a blue box which is the default WinTV output
> when it can't find a signal for its tuner so it looks like its working.
> 
> I captured the picture using rgb16.c
> 
> Not having used rgb16.c before, how long should it take to capture an
> image?  It takes upwards of 10-15seconds for it to create the image.  I
> haven't seen yet how much CPU load this creates.
> 
> The machine is :
> 2.2-Gamma
> AMD X5-133 ( 486 Class )
> UMC Chipset
> 32megs
> 
> Probably the slowest machine you'll ever hear of someone trying to use
> this card in.  :-)
> 
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