Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:02:29 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bt848 Message-ID: <19970218190229.19519@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199702182323.PAA00498@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Feb 02, 1997 at 03:23:50PM References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970218180813.274E-100000@dolphin.inna.net> <199702182323.PAA00498@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty: | |ftp://rah.star-gate.com/bt848.tar.gz | |I would also check out Hauppage's WinCast Tv which also has a tuner which |is currently not supported however various hackers have expressed keen |interest in supporting . | |A couple of things about the Win95 Bt848 drivers, they differ first of. |You really want one which can provide "overlay" that is PCI to PCI |transfer and also support for different video formats. The Intel |Smart Video Recorder III driver is very limited: |o no "overlay" capability |o supports only YUV9 and RGB24 | |Me, I am stuck with the Intel Smart Video Recorder III which is great |for writing a driver since it only has a single chip --- the Bt848. | | Enjoy, | Amancio | |From The Desk Of Jamie Bowden : |> Cool. If you will let me know where I can pull the sources for the |> driver down, we'll get one of the cards, and see what we can see. |> |> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: |> |> > Well, I think the driver is in good shape . The dma error recovery |> > for the purpose of not missing frames needs a little bit more work. |> > |> > All in all I think is thumbs up. |> > |> > Amancio |> > |> > >From The Desk Of Jamie Bowden : |> > > There has been alot of traffic on the bt848 cards recently, and I am |> > > curious about the status of this driver. STB is making a PCI card based |> > > on this chipset for about $150US. They are nice enough cards under |> > > Lozedoze, and we would like to get them working in FreeBSD. |> > > |> > > Jamie Bowden |> > > |> > > Network Administrator, TBI Ltd. |> > > |> > |> > |> > |> |> Jamie Bowden |> |> Network Administrator, TBI Ltd. |> | | |
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