From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 20 13: 2:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pyyhe.saunalahti.fi (posti.saunalahti.fi [195.74.0.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C823215AEE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:02:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjuke@saunalahti.fi) Received: from sjukebox.home (CMXXVI.dyn.saunalahti.fi [195.74.28.26]) by pyyhe.saunalahti.fi (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA28880 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:10:49 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:00:17 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Another success Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello. It's been an questions-and-answers - season in -newbies lately so I decided to put in some content that is (somehow) related to the topic :) Anyway. Last winter I trashed the Win 95 (freed 1.8 G for my MP3's) and used only freebsd from february to late june. Then I bought a Hauppauge WinTV, and decided to install win95 for tv-watching purposes only. I wasn't satisfied with the fxtv properties, biggest problem was teletext reader. Well a couple of weeks ago I heard about this new driver for tv card, and tried it with the AleVT from ports and voila, videotext worked better than in win95 with Hauppauges own commercial program. Then I nuked the win95 again and installed win NT 4.0, for use with 3d programs (I'm not satisfied with blender's antialiasing, and it's not as powerful as 3dsMax). NT kept crashing when I tried to use Wintv program. So I concentrated on improving fxtv's properties, I had been using it only in 320x240 mode. Now when I really studied it I made it to run full-screen, so I had everything I could hope. And if only could I run 3ds and photoshop on freebsd I could say goodbye to win NT too. Photoshop I need because of it's good deinterlace filter, that fixes interlacing problems in tv captured images. It's much better than the Gimp's one. Well now I'm trying to read the O'Reilly's book about Perl. Anyone know good practices to make or problems to solve with Perl? Well well. This message maybe would belong to -multimedia because of it's multimedia related nature but it's a nice success story and because I like to read success stories that others write I decided to put it here. Btw, I did ask a question and that isn't allowed but I'll take the risk of being nailed :) @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message