Intel Extreme Graphics 2

[Caleb828]

Hey guys.
I just received my laptop, (specs are exactly required) for college. All of them are quite good, 2.0ghz, 1g of ram, and such. The only issue is that the graphics card is an integrated 64mb Intel Extreme Graphics 2. Can I use an external TV Tuner? The knowledge base didn't seem too helpful on the subject. Would the quality make such a purchase pointless?

[cpmiv]

Your graphics has nothing to do with if you can or cannot run a tuner for capture. The problem you'll probably be faced with is the viewscape will run poorly. With a capture device you'll be able to record just fine. An alternative "if" your video performance is poor is to use another Mpeg player. I did this for a while when I had an older IBM T20 laptop.

[CoJaBo]

I used BTV on a (cheap) desktop with a Intel Extreme Graphics 2 using 64MB (shared with system RAM), a Celeron D 20Ghz processor, and 448MB of RAM available for the system to use. BTV ran OK in 3D accelerated (playback was choppy in Overlay mode for some reason), so it should work with your laptop.

[btvfreak]

I tried this with a similar Celeron desktop and video played smoothly, but as cpmiv stated when using the viewscape while playing video there was stuttering and lag time. Once I stuffed an old 64MB AIW for video playback everything was fine.