From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 14:43:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87FE16A4DC for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.workingtechnology.co.uk (www.shavers.co.uk [81.109.162.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE92B43D1D for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@shavers.co.uk) Received: from laptop (host213-123-251-200.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.123.251.200]) by alpha.workingtechnology.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E3EB2ABA04 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:49:56 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <004101c40ecc$ca4a22f0$030aa8c0@laptop> From: "Andrew Edwards (Olympic Shaver Centre)" To: References: <5.1.1.6.2.20040320143607.01e04e70@globalpc.net> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:43:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Video Capture Cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:43:42 -0000 Thanks Adrian, I suppose I could throw more than one card in, it's just finding some and knowing once the brooktree chipset supercedes there may be no future development in this area to support newer chips. I wish I was more skilled in c to port some linux code over. With regard to the card you highlighted, this uses a connexant 878 chipset, do you know if this is related to the brooktree design or just a number coincidence? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Gonzalez" > I have a couple of servers running FreeBSD with two or three bt8x8 based > cards each and they work great. > The cards shouldn't be hard to find new. A quick search found: > http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-100-103 > > While I don't own that particular card, it sure looks bt878-based, and $35 > isn't that bad considering it's new and it has a tuner. > > Depending on how many cameras you want to connect to it, you could use the > Video In, hack the input used for the Tuner to provide another video In, > and maybe plug in a third b/w camera to the Luma part of the s-video input > (works great btw). > > I've noticed my cards in particular (848-based) take a few frames to > stabilize when switching between inputs, so keep that in mind if you want > to monitor them all in quick succesion. > > If you're interested, drop me a line and I'll give you the URLs for these > cameras. > > Hope this helps > > -Adrian