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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 01:29:37 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        dave@dapo.com
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help: programing interface to bt848 video capture cards 
Message-ID:  <199707300829.BAA00534@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:57:16 PDT." <33DED7BC.50B6@dapo.com> 

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Hi,

The bt848 driver is backwards compatible with the meteor ioctl interface.

See /usr/src/share/examples/meteor for sample code.

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Dave Porko :
> Hi all
> 
> 
> I need programming help with the newly created driver for the Bt848
> based video capture cards. I've downloaded this driver and have
> configured it for the WinCast/TV board but I haven't found much
> programming info. I want to be able to set the TV channel and then
> capture a single frame. I've found freq.c which explains how to change
> the channel, now I need to know how to set the resolution and capture a
> single frame. Is the Brooktree similar to the meteor driver? I currently
> have a utility that will capture a frame from the meteor card and create
> a web page for display. I'm trying to duplicate this behavior with the
> much cheaper winCast/TV card. If someone can send me a sample piece of
> code to capture a single frame similar to what is included in the meteor
> man page I would greatly appreciate it. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Dave Porko
> dave@dapo.com





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