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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: teletext decoder on the hauppauge ?
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@iet.unipi.it>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of Thu, 15 May 1997 22:42:48 +0200 (CEST)
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> does anyone know how the teletext decoder (SAA5246A) is connected
> to the Bt848 on the Hauppauge card ? I have the data sheet of the
> saa5246a and it seems the only way to fetch the teletext data is
> by hooking into the lines between the teletext decoder and the RAM,

I got the impression from the Philips manual that the RAM could be
read over the I2C bus, but the manual is not really aimed at
programmers, and I don't really understand it.

-- Richard