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On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 21:34, Joe V wrote:<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#407373"><I>So, that said, is there anybody else with marginal
cable signals coming in who have capture card
recommendations? I'd rather not have to add the VCR
into the mix on a permanent basis.</I></FONT></PRE>
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My cable signal varies with the channel I tune to, but even the best stations are what I'd describe as marginal, at least compared to a *good* broadcast signal.<BR>
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My WinTV Stereo PCI and my Athlon XP 2200 don't seem to have any problem with it, for the most part. Something with a lot of panning is noticeably stuttery (sports, for example) and I see the occasional stutter elsewhere, but I'm never sure how much that has to do with dropped frames and how much it has to do with any resulting artifacts from capturing an interlaced signal, displaying it on a de-interlaced X display that gets re-interlaced by the encoder chipset on the video card. <BR>
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Have you tried playing with the buffers settings for the bttv driver? I expiremented with larger values for mine, but it either seemed to make no difference or make things worse. Perhaps you'd have better luck with your setup.<BR>
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Rick<BR>
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