[ltp] A31P video capture, ATI drivers

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/30/06, Bert Haskins <bhaskins@chartermi.net> wrote:
> I have a A31P and am trying to make the S-Video video capture work.
> In movie maker it does work but it has green streaks in the captured video.
> I Pinnacle V8 It just dies with a video capture error message.
> Lspci does not show the device in either FC5 or Ubuntu.
>
> Are there any of the ATI video drivers that are better than the
> ones that are installed by default?
>

IIRC, the thinkpad video capture stuff was a phillips video decoder
attached to the capture interface on the r128 or radeon chip.  You'd
need to start out with the gatos code and probably add support for the
specific decoder.

Alex

> Any ideas will be appreciated.
> Thanks
>