From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 16 09:23:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06212 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 09:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06207 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 09:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA27662 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 09:21:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from pcconsole(192.168.100.254) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma027657; Fri, 16 May 97 09:21:37 -0700 Message-ID: <337C8A01.1F28@PartsNow.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 09:23:29 -0700 From: Don Wilde Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01E -NOV-NOV (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: video capture Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'd like to get some feedback for a project that we're going to do Real Soon Now: point-to-point videoconferencing. I'd like to get some experiences and pointers as to what's good and what's available for FreeBSD. We have several locations which will have frame relay 128K connections. We need to be able to conference (1 - 5 people) with both audio and video. I'd like to be able to dial the frame size to support either low-res for color and real-time motion or hi res at 1 frame/10 sec or so, because we need to be able to zoom in and discern features on closeup shots. We have PCI pentiums available, can probably even use one for digitizing and one for MPEG squirting. The video source is potentially open, too. I'd like to be able to upgrade from NTSC to Hi-8 / Svideo as an option. I have heard of NV from my research into CU-SeeMe, what do you all think about hardware and software possibilities? -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo