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  From: Andrew McDonnell <andymc73@yahoo.com.au>
  To  : Jayson Hay <industry19@iprimus.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:59:57 +1000 (EST)

Re: AMD Notebook Chips / Computer Shops in Adelaide / Auslinx

On 10 Jul 2001, Jayson Hay 

<snipped>

> > I use the buz to watch TV while on my PC (bit of a
> > waste but I somehow never seem to have the time to
> do
> > video production :-()
> 

<snipped>

> I found some great
> sites with some software for the buz, but none that
> showed a picture on the
> screen (preview like). What software do you use to
> do that? I can use my buz
> for capturing
> video / images to disk or outputing to video tape
> and I was happy with that.

I use xawtv. 
One catch is to make sure that /dev/video has rw privs
for all, or else you add your own user to a 'video'
group and make /dev/video owned in that group, else
only root can watch tv.

<snipped>

HTH
Andrew

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