From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 16:14:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.home.nl (mail1.home.nl [213.51.129.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E41B37B71C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:14:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from ricin.localnet ([212.120.85.64]) by mail1.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010330001350.PXJX9974.mail1.home.nl@ricin.localnet>; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 02:13:50 +0200 From: Danny Pansters Organization: Ricin.com To: Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: Video Capture/TV cards -- reports from the field Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 02:16:52 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" References: <20010329054003.P34068-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010329054003.P34068-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01033002165200.26487@ricin.localnet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 29 March 2001 12:47, you wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings: > > I'm looking to pick up a Video Capture/TV card for my FreeBSD 4.2-STABL= E > workstation (Voodoo 4 4500 PCI video) and am looking from some reports > from the field about the compatibility of the two cards I'm looking at. > > The first card I'm looking at is the AIMS Video Highway XTreme 98, whic= h > according to the bktr(4) man page, is known to work. I'd be interested > to hear about its quality though. > > The second is the ATI TV Wonder, which I could not determine if it is > compatible or not. This is the card I would rather pick up, so if anyon= e > knows on its status working/not, I'd love to hear :) > The WinTV series from Hauppauge and the Miro cards work fine; my guess=20 would be that any card with a real brooktree chip will work for composite= =20 sources like a vcr or a camera, even s-video, although there might be=20 differences concerning tuner chips.=20 Not very helpful, I know :-) --=20 Danny Pansters http://www.ricin.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message