Has anyone used an ATI Radeon 7500 with Linux for Video capture?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Michael Galea wrote:

> I need to capture the family movies from my camcorder onto digital
> media. I am hoping to use a Radeon 7500 (has a TV in and MPEG encoder
> feature) to capture and then burn to DVD. Has anyone had experience with
> this card (or others), and if so, have you been happy with the results?
> I have read that the card can encode 30 fps of 720x480 bits.  Does this
> produce acceptable video quality?

720x480 is standard TV resolution and roughly equivalent in quality to
800x600 on a computer screen. I used to use a TV capture card that had a
similar resolution and the picture on the monitor was far above average TV
quality (at 720x???).

Peter
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