From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 23 20:48:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FF337B407 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26482; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:18:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011023224218.A12573@nc.rr.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:18:04 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Randall Hopper Subject: Re: fxtv and real-time mpeg capture (status) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, bruno schwander Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24-Oct-2001 Randall Hopper wrote: > Right. And with YUV, the bandwidth is less for the same size image. Also, > you can blow up your window larger than max video capture res and have no > increase in PCI traffic. And, when your window is partially occluded, you > don't give up DMA transfers to the video card; there are no application > tricks needed as Xv/XFree86 handles all of the clipping. > > The problem is, not everyone's video card supports Xv (I suspect most TV > user's cards don't; we should do a poll on that sometime...). So I haven't > felt this incredible urge to add Xv support to Fxtv yet. Yeah, I don't have Xv supporting card in my TV card holding box :) (GF2MX) > If you want to play around, try the attached "simpletv" prog I threw > together back in May 2000. Works fine here on my Matrox G450 (and before > on my G200), but hasn't been tried on anything else. Note you'll need > Hermes from here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hermes/. Just configure, > make, make install. Then, build and run simpletv. You'll want to run fxtv Use the port? :) > first to init the bktr driver settings. Stretch the window all around. No > app involvement is req'd -- very simple. Can you put the simpletv program on your web page? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message