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TerraTValue
Question 5:
What is the maximum resolution at which TerraTValue can digitalize video sequences?
Answer 5:
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As with most common TV cards with Brooktree 848 or 878 chips, the TerraTValue can
digitalize video sequences with a maximum resolution of 768x576 pixels. The amount of
data that comes with this video format, however, blows any possibility of having
momentary access to your hard drive. For this reason, dropped frames are common with
this resolution. With the dropped frames, your TV card's driver is trying to control the data
yield just enough so that your hard drive is able to process it. It does this by leaving out just
enough frames to make the data mass manageable. This, of course, has a dramatic effect
on the final results. The more dropped frames there are, the more the final recorded video
sequence will appear to jerk. In this case, only setting a smaller video format
(Options\Video Format)
will help. Current systems can record video sequences fluidly with
a maximum video format of 384x288 pixels!
Question 6:
The mouse pointer freezes when working with the TV software.
Answer 6:
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So far, this has only happened when TerraTValue is configured with another slot card on
the same interrupt. If this is the case, then you should simply be able to configure
TerraTValue or the other card to another interrupt. In part, this must happen over the BIOS,
as you will need to assign concrete values to the PCI slots. Do this through the point PCI
Configuration. First, ascertain which cards are in which PCI slots. You can figure this out by
looking directly at your mainboard. There, the individual PCI slots are labeled one after the
other. If you know which slot card is in which PCI slot, you can set these to a certain
interrupt value by assigning a value to the PCI slots in the BIOS. You can find more
information on this in your mainboard's manual.
