[NTLUG:Discuss] Video for Linux - software needed for BT848

[Dan Carlson]

Xawtv should work.  I've used it to display the composite input on my WinTV
Go card and it works just fine.

For streaming you can use RealProducer and RealServer, if you want to
stream the Real Media formats.  There are free 'Basic' versions you can use
to try it out and use for low connection counts.  For a few thousand $ you
can support a lot of connections.

I recently attempted to switch from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0 and found that
RealProducer and RealServer don't run on 8.0 with its 2.4 kernel; they
segfault during load.  I think this may have been caused by a 2.96 gcc
compatibility problem.  I tried SuSE 7.1 and they run just fine on its 2.4
kernel, even though they not supported by Real when running on a 2.4
kernel.

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Geoffrion" <richard at rain.lewisville.tx.us>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Video for Linux - software needed for BT848


> I have a BT848 PCI capture card that supports a composite input.  If I
use
> that in my P-133 server in lieu of a WINTV card (a card with a tuner),
what
> applications should I use to display the input signal?  (preferably full
> screen)  Should I still go after xawtv and kwintv?
>
>
> FYI, I'm running Slack 8 with the Video for Linux option compiled into
the
> 2.4.5 kernel.  (It's probably compiled as a module.)
>
> Of course the next step in the project would be to stream video.  (Not
for
> me, but for a customer)
>
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