From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Nov 23 01:00:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA16647 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA16641 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA22814 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:00:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611230900.BAA22814@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Matrox Meteors Vs. OmniMedia P1S Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:00:29 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Someone just ask me if the Omnimedia card which sells for $299 works with the meteor driver. The answer is yes. I have several Omnimedia cards something like 5 or so and I plug in and plug out the Omnimedia or the Meteor in with no hazzles or problems. The only problem that I know of is that the Meteor is a full length PCI card and the OmniMedia P1SC is a half-size PCI card so on machines that I run FreeBSD and I need two video capture boards I install the P1SC. The Meteor has a nice programming library for Win95 and Win NT and the P1SC is mostly for Win 3.1 and Win95. The Meteor sells for $499 The P1SC sells for $299 more info at http://www.omt.com Recently, I ordered the Intel Smart Video Recorder III which sells for $199 . This is just a dump video capture board -- I have no clue what it is yet in terms of components so as soon as I get my hands on it, I will be happy to report back to the group. Enjoy, Amancio