From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 22 06:10:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26911 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 06:10:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (root@fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26901 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 06:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from muir-10 (roger@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.148.10]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA00544 Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:10:14 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <358E57B6.15FB@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:10:14 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: University of Strathclyde X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tadashi Okoshi CC: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Multiple Bt848 cards in a PC. References: <358E3C9D.41C6@cs.strath.ac.uk> <199806221205.VAA16466@enterprise.sfc.wide.ad.jp.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tadashi, > > Does anyone have the PC with multiple(2,3, or 4...) Bt848 Cards? Yes. I have 3 Bt848 cards in my machine. 1 Hauppauge WinTV card 2 Videologic Captivator PCI cards. > And I am planning the watching multiple TV channels at the same time. Make sure you get three identical cards as the bt848 driver assumes all Bt848 cards have the same make of tuner. I only use cameras so the tuner type did not matter to me. > (Although I'm not sure that multiple processes can treat DGA mode > at the same time...) The new version of FXTV supports multiple Bt848 cards and they can both do DGA at the same time from what I can remember. use the fxtv -deviceNumber 0 and fxtv -deviceNumber 1 settings. Roger -- Roger Hardiman, | Department of Computer Science, PhD Research Student, | University of Strathclyde, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk | Glasgow, Scotland, UK http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message