Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:58:54 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Video capture Message-ID: <199512111558.JAA10719@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 1995 04:05:35 PST." <199512111205.EAA03986@rah.star-gate.com>
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In a totally unrelated thread, "Amancio Hasty Jr." scribbled:
> You are right about e-mail not being the best medium for such a thing and
> in fact is the reason why I recommend that you get a Matrox Meteor,
> vat-4.0a2, the latest sound driver and have a serious face to face
> with Julian.
So, here's the question for someone: What-the-heck video capture
board *do* I have, and can I use it on a FreeBSD system?
Now, so that it's not a *total* psychic-convention, I'll describe
it some and we'll see how close I can get to the right info...
(In Terry Lambert standard format. :-)
1) I have a Vivo 320 video conference system including the Video
capture board and the ISDN card (POS IBM Waverunner).
2) The video card is a 3/4 length ISA bus card
3) It uses only I/O address 140, 150 or 160
4) It apparently has no IRQ requirements.
5) It's capable of both NTSC and PAL formats.
6) It's got a some logitech digital camera connected to it
7) The mic is on the camera, but can be plugged in too
8) Sound output is to external speakers
The connections on the "real end" of the card are:
Digital video camera
Normal video RCA jack
Audio in
Audio out
some unreferenced itty-bitty audio-like jack.
On the board there appears to be
One row of three independent pin-out busses
with 13x2, 13x2 and 17x2
One row near the ISA bus
with 17x2 and 13x2
SCSI bus (?)
For all I really know, this could be a proprietary Vivo card...
The important chips on the board itself say:
(c) Winnov LP 1993 ITT ITT
Wavia R10 ASCO 2300 VSP 2860
401 G 003359711 G 012156002
3512 16 4102 30/58
Some of those could easily be ISA bus chips, for all I know.
There also appears to be a SCSI bus chip on the board at the
"other end" near a SCSI bus pin out:
ZILOG
Z0538010VSC
SCSI
9411 L4
The FCC Id number for the board appears to be: DZLVCB-01
On the back, the only thing that might be construed as a Logo
is a combination of a backwards R and U, then SMB2.
So, there. Anyone know what the heck it is and if I can use it
with FreeBSD? Well, OK, I mean without first writing my own
driver for it... :-)
Thanks,
jdl
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