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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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Subject: Re: Bt848 driver release 0.3 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi,

If you want to try out "dtv" the "old way" please download :
ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/tv-0.2.tar.gz

	Have fun,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Louis A. Mamakos" :
> 
> > A couple of hackers have reported success with Hauppages's
> > WinCast/TV which is a Bt848 based video card. WinCast/TV is cheaper
> > than the Intel card plus it has much better driver support in Win95.
> 
> I just wanted to echo that I just tried this new release of the driver
> on a brand new WinCast/TVdbx (version with stereo audio), and it seems
> to be working great with dtv.  I got the "deluxe" version at CompUSA
> for $159.00; the non-stereo audio version was $129, I think.
> 
> I'm curious to try dtv the "old" way, with the video in a window done
> the hard way.  I'd like to be able to watch the video, and hack away
> on some code at the same time in another window.  The current version
> using the DGA XFree86 extension sort of grabs the display away from
> the X server for the duration.  I'm trying to figure out if it's
> "safe" to create a window that's "always on top" and "sticky" (that
> is, it moves with the view as you pan around on a desktop) and have
> the video blasted into it, within the window frame.  I fear that I'm
> gonna have to learn much more about how X works than I ever wanted
> to..
> 
> I contacted the Brooktree people today, and I'm hoping that I'll get
> some docs on the Bt848, as well as their hardware eval board which
> looks to have the same sort of tuner assembly on it.  They have some
> sample software for their hardware eval kit, and I'm hoping source
> code which might include how to talk to the tuner over the I^2C bus.
> 
> louie