From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 01:07:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66F516A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:07:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0720D43D3F for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:07:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546F77A423; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:07:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <420810E9.9020302@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:07:53 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ola Theander References: <20050207235656.TOYU23903.mxfep01.bredband.com@c0003> In-Reply-To: <20050207235656.TOYU23903.mxfep01.bredband.com@c0003> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: Tips for building a video capture device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:07:54 -0000 Ola Theander wrote: >Dear subscribers > >I'm trying to help a customer to build a station for documentation using >video recording. My customer's business involves inspecting buildings using >fibre optics. For this purpose he as constructed a suitcase like station >using a DVD-HD recorder found in most retail stores, a flat TV screen etc. >However, this station is very heavy and clumsy so I figure that I try and >help him to create something more suitable. > >My idea is to use one of these ITX-motherboards to build a video capture >computer with a simple touch screen interface but I haven't managed to find >a motherboard that supports video-in as well as it's able to run FreeBSD or >Linux. If >it's possible I would try to avoid expansion video capture cards since I >want to keep the package as small and as cheap as possible, since if this >idea works it will be manufactured in a substantial number of units. So if >anyone know of a motherboard that meet these requirements, please give me a >hint. > >This construction is a first draft idea so if any of you hackers out there >have some alternative idea how this can be done I'll be glad to hear. > have you considerred a DV camcoder and a laptop with a firewire interface? for example an apple ibook, with a 300GB firewire external disk and a small sony DV camcorder would do all that is required.. (A freebsd/Linux version may take a bit more work but would probaby work as well). > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Kind regards, Ola Theander > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >