On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, delire wrote:
Sounds good and i'm very interested in the dual display option, does it have a tv/video in port to capture movieclips?
no the hercules doesn't have an 'in' of any sort. though you can mess with a tv card to do this - it works for a friend of mine just fine ; ) the next best solution for a leaner/meaner video signal
i am using my asus-v6600deluxe (nvidia's geforce256) which has tv-out and video-in (but is not dual-headed) there are no drivers that support the tv-out under linux, but plugging off the monitor before booting the system will make the card auto-detect the tv-out and use this one.
the video-in is not so simple (at least for me). there appears to be a philips sa47xx (or anything, i keep forgetting this) decoder-chip, which ought to be supported somehow by video4linux. the system recognises the chip (witch cat /proc/pci) but i have never managed to make it work with video4linux. so i would recommend to buy a separate capture-card (under linux) to do video-grabbing. do buy a cheap one. pe my dv500 (900,- U$ or something) is not supported by linux either, so i have 3 capture-devices under windos (2*analog, 1*digital), one of which i can use under Gem (the video-in of the gfx-card) but none under linux. it's a pity
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