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Date:      Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:10:07 +0200
From:      Guy Lateur <glateur@mri2.rug.ac.be>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Which bt-card to buy?
Message-ID:  <3785E69F.4F0B3DD9@mri2.rug.ac.be>
References:  <199907071127.NAA59864@freebsd.dk>

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Soren Schmidt wrote:

> It seems Roger Hardiman wrote:
> > Soren
> >
> > > > If you do not want to capture video, then the ATI card is a good
> > > > option.
> > >
> > > Huh?? I can capture video all I like with my ATI setup
> >
> > Sorry.
> > I thought there was no video capture option with the ATI card.
>
> Well, there you are :), I can even watch the video I'm capturing, IIRC
> the bt based setup disables onscreen video when capturing probably due
> to having enough bus bandwidth..
>
> > The ATI card sounds rather good then.
>
> I think so, the only problem I have with it, is that is limitted to ATI
> HW only, but what the heck, the do pretty decent videocards and they
> are well supported under XFree86, and if you go with the All in wonder
> cards you only use ONE precious slot (AGP|PCI) ....
>

Thanks a lot for your input. I think I'll go for the ATI (my S3 graphics
card is pretty outdated anyway). Any ideas on when GATOS might make it
into -stable?

Bye,
g.



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