Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:47:14 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 968 (was Re: Buffer cache) Message-ID: <199510300547.VAA11189@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 1995 22:15:26 MST." <199510300515.WAA01549@hemi.com>
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>>> Ade Barkah said: > > Hopefully, in the near future I will be able to get my Diamond S3 > > 968 + mpeg/video capture daugther card working on FreeBSD. > > > > Amancio > > How do you like that card with FreeBSD ? I just helped a friend > yesterday install that card to work with FreeBSD 2.0.5-R and > xfree 3.1.2 (unfortunately the 3.1.1 server on the CD doesn't > support the card.) He doesn't have mpeg daughter card yet and > I was wondering how one would use it under FreeBSD. > The card is okay its virtue is that it supports and mpeg/video/audio card . This baby can dump video straight into the VRAM. Somehow, I managed to become part of Diamond's developers group and I had to sign a NDA for any stuff that they give me. The current situation for FreeBSD is that I am waiting for Diamond to give me the necessary information to program their mpeg daughter card. I have been trying to get this information from Diamond for the last 2 months and all I can say is that I am getting closer. Yes with some of this companies patience is a requirement. So the straight forward answer is right now we can't play back mpeg with Diamond's offering. However, OmniMedia does have a hardware mpeg solution for FreeBSD . Check out : http://www.freebsd.org/~faulkner/multimedia/mm.html for a pointer to OmniMedia and eventually we will have lots of stuff on our Multimedia html page! Enjoy Amancio
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