From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Mar 5 14:03:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14667 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14660 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:03:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:02:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02201; Wed, 5 Mar 97 17:02:49 EST Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06229; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:00:21 -0500 Message-Id: <19970305170021.08896@ct.picker.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:00:21 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: multimedia@Freebsd.org Cc: David Langford Subject: Re: Video Capture for FreeBSD References: <199703050401.SAA16536@caliban.dihelix.com> <199703050427.UAA01285@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.64 In-Reply-To: <199703050427.UAA01285@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Mar 04, 1997 at 08:27:04PM -0800 Sender: owner-multimedia@Freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty: |Here is a listing of street prices: | |Intel Smart Video Recoder III around $179 |WinCastTV around $149 |STB PC TV around $149 | |I wish I had a WinCast/TV however I must confess that to start writing |a Bt848 driver from scratch the Intel card was not a bad deal since |the card all it has is a Bt848. BTW, there are actually 3 WinCast TV cards: WinCast TV around $99 WinCast TV/dbx around $149 (TV + stereo/dolby decoder) WinCast TV/fm ? (TV/dbx + FM radio tuner) These are CompUSA/Microcenter prices, so you can probably get them even cheaper mail order. All use the Bt848 AFAIK (dbx does for sure). David, in terms of a review, I don't know much about the Intel & STB cards, but as for the WinCast, here's a short feature list I pulled together before I put down the green for my TV/dbx. Besides what's listed Hauppauge has recently added 16 channel preview to their MSW95 S/W. Though I'm never in Windoze to use these features, I guess they're important to some. Randall _____________________________________________________________________________ Hauppauge WinCast/TVdbx _____________________________________________________________________________ URL: http://206.149.250.27/index.htm http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/index.htm Models: WinCast/TV (Model 400) .. ~$149 ($99 at local CompUSA) WinCast/TVdbx (Model 401) .. ~$199 ($149 at local COmpUSA) WinCast/TVfm - has FM radio & dbx-TV Card : single, short PCI, bus-master (DMA), plug-and-play Chipset : Bt848 (?) Tuner : 125 channel cable ready Digitizer : 4:2:2 (from Tuner or Ext Video) Sound : dbx & SAP (dbx vers) Jacks : Audio-out jack (to sound card line in) Audio/Video in jack(s) (from VCR, etc.) RF in jack VGA Reqs : NO connect. req'd (e.g. VGA feature conn); just PCI Bus 640x480-1280x1024 res support S-video : NO BusTransf : moves uncompressed YUV over bus to disk; YUV or RGB to vid Capture : Img: 640x480 max NTSC AVI: 320x240 max, 30fps Window : Resizable '95 Reqs : Direct Draw PCI push support req'd of video card Features : Intercast support/decoder S/W; close caption support Freeze frame Image save VfW drivers for video movies Hardware vert interp (use one frame; reduc motion artif) OVERLAY MODE: Cards supported for "zoom" to full screen: - S3 Trio64V+ and S3 ViRGE 3D - Cirrus Logic 5446 - ATI VT and GT series of graphics display adapters, Video card does the rescaling YUV pushed straight to video card (PCI-to-PCI) Requires 0.5Meg VGA mem for 4:2:2 VGA image. Requires video port on video card PRIMARY SURFACE MODE: Cards supported: - S3 Trio32/64 PCI, S3 Vision968, S3 Vision 868 - Matrox Millenium and Mystique - ATI Mach64 - Hercules Dynamite 128 and other ET6000 based VGA cards - (And my Hercules Stingray 64/Video works fine too --RHH) Wincast board does the rescaling RGB pushed to straight video card (PCI-to-PCI) Fall-back if OVERLAY MODE not supported >= 16bpp mode No Close Caption TV size limited to 640x480