Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 09:47:28 -0500 From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, sakr@itp.ac.ru Subject: Re: Videoconferences in FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <199506131447.JAA22323@plains.nodak.edu>
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> What cards for video input (from videocamera) does FreeBSD support now > (in 2.0.5-RELEASE) or will support in the near future (in 2.1-RELEASE, > for example) ? supported video capture cards: CORTEX-I Frame Grabber (monochrome, though I think the card is capiable of color if the color lookup table was programed differently) Video Spigot (*help* someone fill in the details) Matrox Comet/Marvel II (these are excellent boards simular to the Jazz Jakarta in features. Since Matrox only licenses their specs to these boards, you will need to get a commerical software (X Inside Inc has a commerical X for Matrox boards). related, but not for conferencing: OmniMedia Talisman (MPEG viewer) Cards people are interested in writing drivers: Jazz Jakarta (Amancio Hasty has expressed interested in writting a driver. I believe this is also a video card. I also believe this is a MPEG board. This board should be excellent for "live" video viewing). Matrox Meteor (Jim Lowe and I are interested in writting the Matrox Meteor drivers. This driver offer 16/24 bit packed RGB and 4-2-2 planar YUV output for conferencing tools suchas nv/ivs. Right now I am trying to get a better understanding of the PCI bus). there are tons of low end cards that could be supported if the cards and time were available. I still think FreeBSD could fill a big demand as a cheap multimedia machine. sound cards: Since some of the above cards have their own sound cards, maybe when the driver for the video capture is done the audio will be supported also. I think conventual wisdom still prefers original Advance Gravis Ultra Sound for it's bidirectional feature. It appears the card is not being made anymore and only a few dealers still carry the card. --mark.
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