tvtime vs xawtv

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:57:49 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:

> > > tvtime is miles ahead of
> > >xawtv.  My tv quality is MUCH better w/ tvtime, and CPU usage is way
> > > down. 
> >
> > ROFL ;-)
> > i686, 400 mhz, 265 mb ram
> > $ /sbin/lspci | grep -i bt
> > 0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
> > Video Capture (rev 02)
> > 0000:00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
> > Capture (rev 02)
> 
> Like I said, there are a few people that tvtime is not good for them.  
> It has something to do with their video hardware and tvtime not being 
> able to display the way it wants to, thus using some sort of library 
> that is causing huge cpu usage.  Please don't get stuck in the whole 
> "if it's broken for me, it must be broken for everybody" trap, as it 
> just doesn't fly.

One thing for sure, "a few people" is far off reality. The Bt878 chipset
is a very popular one. And tvtime performs real badly with it.

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