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To: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria <rodolfo@coe.ufrj.br>
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Subject: Re: MBone Connection 
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:13:11 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199510040054.VAA23474@alpha.coe.ufrj.br> you write:
>  I'm going to set up a pentium machine to connect in the mbone. 
>I was thinking about using FreeBSD. But I have some doubts.

FreeBSD is the only free OS that I know of with the most recent multicast 
routing code.

>  What are the current available drivers for Audio and Video hardware ?

I don't have any direct experience with video hardware, although I hear the 
Matrox Meteor works well.  I use a Gravis UltraSound with Jim Lowe's "vmix" 
program (ftp.cs.uwm.edu:/pub/FreeBSD/vmix.0.3.tar.gz; there appears to be some 
Meteor stuff there too) very successfully.  (In fact, I used it yesterday to 
broadcast CNN's OJ coverage over the MBONE yesterday morning =)

>  I have read that the best Audio card for Mbone is the GUS.  Is there
>any other card (Besides PAS or SB) ?

It's really best to have a full-duplex card; the SB cards are generally 
half-duplex.  vmix v0.3 will apparently work with a half-duplex card but I'm 
not sure if it will let you speak or just listen.

  Bill