On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Steve Cookson <it@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Devin, > > Thanks for responding. > > So my question would be then, is it worth fixing? > > I can't find any PCIe cards that give me a reasonable quality. > > If I use an external card like the Dazzle it seems quite fast and better > quality than many s-video cards. > > Could the ImpactVCB-e be better than the Dazzle? Hi Steve, Whether it's worth fixing, it's largely a question of "worth it to whom"? Apparently nobody had noticed it was broken until now, hence making it questionable how important it is to the general community. It's worth noting that the problem isn't specific to the ImpactVCB-e; it would happen with any cx23885 based board. The quality will probably be comparable to the Dazzle. In terms of "quite fast", they should both be the exact same speed since they are both delivering raw video in realtime. One key advantage of the ImpactVCB-e is that you can have multiple installed in a single system, while in the case of the Dazzle you will likely only be able to use one device since it uses more than half of the USB bus bandwidth. I'm not sure what other cards you've tried. Nowadays they should all deliverable comparable performance for s-video (since no chroma separation is involved), if they don't then it's almost certainly a Linux driver bug. If you have a commercial need for the device to work, we can discuss offlist doing some consulting to resolve the issue. However if not then you're pretty much at the mercy of the community in terms of the state of quality/support. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
