From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat May 31 23:51:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09750 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 23:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA09745 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 23:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA22933; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 08:17:35 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199706010617.IAA22933@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: grabber To: torstenb@ramsey.tb.9715.org (Torsten Blum) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 08:17:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Torsten Blum" at Jun 1, 97 02:01:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > for a projekt I need a video capture board that supports S-VIDEO (hosiden) > with PAL and NTSC. Video source will be a LaserDisc Player and a Sony > EVI-D31 cam. My experience is only with composite video... > Is there a difference between the Meteor and the Bt848 cards regarding > the picture quality ? Having tried both, I am all for the Bt848. >From the data sheets it looks like the Bt848 is much more powerful for what concerns sampling and filtering. As an example, it can average adjacent rows to remove artifacts due to phase errors in reconstruction the color subcarrier -- a common problem in PAL which is usually solved by the use of a delay line, but the Meteor cannot do this (and yest those artifacts I am able to see here). It also seems to have a higher sampling frequency. Last but not least, Bt848-based boards cost 1/3 of the Meteor and there are many suppliers. > Can one recommend a Bt848 based card ? I have had good results with the Hauppauge board. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________