[MPlayer-users] ATI Radeon Video Drivers

[Green, Shaun]

Is anyone here using the ATI Radeon 7500 card to capture video with
mencoder?

This friend of mine keeps wanting to use Linux for capturing, but can't get
his video drivers to work probably with Red Hat 8.0 and would appreciate any
suggestions. Here is his email to me;  

>The Xi Graphics (fast) Linux drivers and software,
>after EMAIL contact with that company, simply is not going to support
>streaming video capture.  The ATI.2 (slower) Linux drivers with GATOS video
>capture stuff has bugs in it;  I EMAILED the author about it and he said to
>send more information for him to debug the situation.  Otherwise, it's
still
>the WinXP environment for me with Linux as secondary.  Since ATI seems now
>to be "officially" in the Linux driver business as of a month ago, I expect
>that their driver quality and Linux capabilities will ramp up over the next
>few months. 
>
>CH