Hauppauge BTTV video capture

[godot]

Anyone out there use one of these often? I've gotten it to work for watching tv just fine, but using xawtv, motv, or even vcr for video capture drops frames all over the place, it's not even close. In a 30 second clip I'll have 6 seconds of just audio, it's ridiculous. My system is a dual p2-400 with a gig of ram and the hd I'm capturing to is a IBM 60GXP on a ATA100 controller, so no problems there. Any ideas, or other good capture cards?

[Speedy]

hmm. I capture just fine on one of those. I have a wintv go! that uses the brooktree PCI chip (bt878). I can capture in realtime and encode to divx with no dropped frames. Try vcr with resolution 320x240 and use divx.

Try

vcr -g /dev/video0 -c "DivX 4.0" -r 320x240 -t5m movie.avi

You'll probably end up with a few frames dropped in the encoder. On an 800 thunderbird its barely fast enough to avoid dropped frames.

-Speedy