From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Apr 22 17:24:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19653 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19648 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA03549; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704230024.RAA03549@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Doug White cc: "David M. Meyer" , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multicast on freebsd? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:32:50 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:24:25 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The latest driver bt848 is at rah.star-gate.com:/pub/bt848-clip.tar.gz Please do get this version if you decide to get a WinCast TV . Officially, it is part of FreeBSD 3.0-current and you can compile the driver on 2.2 however with earlier versions of freebsd it will not compile. Whats great about the WinCast TV is that they are cheap about $120 and they are excellent PCI video capture boards plus they come with a tuner so combine with fxtv you can turn your PC into a TV 8) Do a net search with netscape to locate your nearest dealer which carries WinCast TVs. Enjoy, Amancio >From The Desk Of Doug White : > I'm going to move this over to multimedia@freebsd.org, where the majority > of our mbone and bt848 people hang out. > > On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, David M. Meyer wrote: > > > > > Can anyone tell me if they have been running > > the multicast tools (vat, vic, maybe sdr) on > > a freebsd box? If so, what video boards (if you're > > encoding)? what audio hardware? > > I have the mbone tools mentioned above working perfectly on FreeBSD > 2.2-GAMMA. I'm using a Gravis Ultrasound Plug & Play for audio and a > Hauppauge WinCast/TV for video in. The GUS is full duplex, and the > WinCast has a tuner onboard. Doubles as a extra-crisp television. > > The WinCast and other BT848-based boards (STB TV/PC, others) are supported > by a driver you'll have to fetch and install, which is not difficult at > all. The driver still has some rough edges but is coming along *very* > nicely. I still need to rebuild with the latest version of the driver to > see if they've fixed some lagging bugs, especially one with vic. The info > page for the bt848 is > > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html > > The GUS also requires some changes to the kernel to get it to support PnP. > The appropriate file is > > ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/guspnp6.tar.gz > > For a while, I had a quickcam that would multicast. I still have the > software to do that. Frame rate is horrible but it gets the picture out. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > PS: I would be happy to demonstrate this sometime. Your office is only a > few blocks east of here, after all :) > >