TV Tuner and application

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:28:48PM -0500, Martin Duclos wrote:
> I've been trying to get the xawtv thing working. Apearently this is 
> supposed to work for other video tuner to work. I'm so confused now. I 
> didn't even get a chance to get any the app running. I can't even get past 
> the installation of the proper driver for the vidoe card. I haven't got the 
> slightest clue of how gatos, bttv, vidoe4linux and a tv tuner all fit 
> together. What has to be in place for the app to work. Do I need 3d 
> acceleration? OpenGL? Can someone explain in great details how every piece 
> fit together? (and how to get the danm thing working?)

I think gatos is independant of the others.  Unless they changed it a
lot since it started, gatos doesn't do video for linux.  It does
everything internally in the video chip as overlays.  They may have
changed that since.

Lennart Sorensen
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