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Last Review by imroy - posted: 10-01-2004 02:06 AM [ Post a Review ] 


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 Great little card. If you have the CPU to burn, I recommend TVtime for viewing: http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ For capturing I recommend NVrec: http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/ The .nuv files can be played by MPlayer and converted using Transcode. Even on my old Athlon-750 I could turn the quality up to 100% at 640x576 (PAL) capture. With my newer Athlon-XP 2400+ I can easily do 720x576 or 768x576. I then use one of the deinterlacing filters in transcode and scale it down to 640x480 or smaller. I have a good collection of video clips encoded with XViD/Vorbis.

Rating: 10
Product Details: "WinTV" by danns - posted: 11-08-2003 - Rating: ********* 9.33

Last Review by imroy - posted: 10-01-2004 01:29 AM [ Post a Review ] 


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 I have one of these in a Sun SPARCstation LX. it's soldered onto the board. Running at 50MHz, it's way behind anything in a PC. But it appears to handle load much better than an equivalent PC would (approx 50MHz 486). Perhaps this is because of the sliding register window SPARC architecture. Perhaps it's because of the SCSI hard disk. Not a bad little CPU.

Rating: 10
Product Details: "TI MicroSparc" by imroy - posted: 10-01-2004 - Rating: ********** 10.00

Last Review by imroy - posted: 10-01-2004 12:56 AM [ Post a Review ] 


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 Works great with CUPS and the gimp-print driver. With photo paper or coated paper the results are surprisingly good for a 4-colour printer. NOTE: Avoid cheap ink! I used non-Epson ink for a while and then had a lot of trouble with blocked nozzles. I've managed to fix it with a lot of work and now only use genuine Epson ink.

Rating: 10
Product Details: "Stylus Color 740" by Phathead - posted: 11-09-2003 - Rating: ********* 9.00

Last Review by imroy - posted: 07-01-2004 10:02 AM [ Post a Review ] 


Views: 33851

 This is a good board, but it does have its problems. 1. The BIOS doesn't initialize/reset USB properly if the system (Linux) isn't shutdown properly, like with a crash or power failure. This is a problem since I have a USB keyboard (and mouse). The USB keyboard doesn't work with the BIOS setup or with GRUB. I have to have a PS/2 keyboard sitting on top of the case for these situations. Once Linux loads though, everything is ok. And if I then shutdown properly then the keyboard will work with the BIOS and GRUB. 2. The board doesn't seem to turn off completely when it's turned off. I have a USB keydrive on an extension cable and its light stays on even when the system is shutdown. This is probably to enable the various power-on features (from KB, mouse, LAN, modem...). 3. Most of the time the system doesn't even get to POST when turned on. The screen stays off (in power-save mode) and the floppy doesn't seek. I have to remove the power cable from the PSU, count to ten, and plug it back in. Possibly related to #2. Other than that, it seems to be a good board. My Radeon 9200 (AGPx4) works well. I don't know about SATA, but the driver for it loads ok too. All the USB ports (six with the supplied expansion bracket) seem to work as well. The on-board ethernet is supported by the 8139too driver. The board supports APIC so I get more than the old 16 interrupts. BTW, hitting Ctrl-F1 in the BIOS setup displays "advanced" settings, for when you know what you're doing. Update: I recently had to use the on-board software when I swapped out my SB Live to another machine for a quick experiment. IT SUCKS! Ugh. It totally lacked any high-end response. It was very muddy and sounded like the speakers were inside the wall.

Rating: 10
Product Details: "GA-7VT600 1394" by v3rt1g0 - posted: 03-18-2004 - Rating: ******** 8.25



  



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