From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Sep 28 09:21:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA11361 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tolstoy.mpd.ca (mpd.ca [206.123.11.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11353 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plato (plato.mpd.ca [206.123.11.34]) by tolstoy.mpd.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA23953; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 12:10:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <342E8085.1308@mpd.ca> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 12:06:29 -0400 From: Bill Lloyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Al Johnson CC: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xftv References: <342E6C50.B181CA2F@AJC.State.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk User Al Johnson wrote: > > This morning I decided to try to bring up my STB TV/PCI card under > FBSD 2.2-STABLE. I've got the xftv 0.44 package installed, the bktr0 > and tuner0 devices created and I get video.... but... > > The colors are way off and I don't get video within the Xwindow at all > at 24bpp. At first I thought I was using the entire color palette with > XV or Netscape but once I killed them off I still had the same problem. > When I drop back to 8bpp (or the default, I don't remember) I get video > contained within the Xwindow but the same color scheme. > > I'm more of a system user (at least for video) than a hacker some hand > holding my be needed. > > Any suggestions? I've got a PPro180 with STB Velocity 3D (8MB), XFree86 > 3.3.1 > all this being run by AfterStep. If need be I can include a frame grab > of the > video output, It's pretty ugly. > > -- Al > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Alan R. Johnson > President > Al Johnson Consulting Services I'm using pretty much the same setup with very good results. I'm on 2.2-stable (as of a couple days ago), fxtv-0.44, X3.3.1, afterstep and an STB TV card. I'm using a matrox card in 16bpp mode. I've had no problems at all. I just plugged some rabbit ears into the STB card, and away I go. Screen captures are quite good. I'm also running netscape etc, and havn't had any problems like that. I do sometime find that the video suffers from "jaggies". The picture looks interlaced and the lines aren't synched properly. I can usually get that to go away with resizing the window slightly with the aspect lock turned on. As a side note, does anybody have a suggestion of a cheap camera to add to the STB card? I don't own a video camera. I'm not looking for really high quality video, just something to play with. I know someone who purchased a "USR Big Picture" . That comes with it's own camera and card, and is availible for ~$200USD. I looked at the card, it is also bt848 based, any ideas if it also works with the driver? -bill -- William Lloyd (wlloyd@mpd.ca) |