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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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Subject: Re: Videoconferences in FreeBSD ?
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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.