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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