tvtime vs xawtv

[Bart Martens]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 01:58, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:57:49 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Michael, I agree with what Jesse said. I have a bt878 chipset in my
Hauppage WinTV Express tv-card. For some reason tvtime works excellent,
while xawtv crashes. Maybe the solution is to have both tvtime and xawtv
included, in core or in extras or in alternatives, I don't know.