From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Aug 22 08:23:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA13682 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miller.cs.uwm.edu (miller.cs.uwm.edu [129.89.139.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA13677 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from james@localhost) by miller.cs.uwm.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19321; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:23:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:23:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Lowe Message-Id: <199708221523.KAA19321@miller.cs.uwm.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu Subject: Re: Regard to phone call about FreeBSD drivers Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, sales@omt.com Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Amancio Hasty > Hi, > Spoke briefly with Dr. Redi . Basically, I am going to meet him tomorrow > and just chat a bit more. I have dealt with OmniMedia in the past . > Briefly, cause I am still at wor, does anyone have any cool ideas > for next generation audio/video hardware -- desired codecs, > telephony support, full duplex audio. etc,... > I have lots of ideas :-). One thing that would be nice is an integrated full duplex sound card with video capture/playback. It would be nice to have both a PCI card and a PCMCIA card. The chips which come to mind are the crystal semiconductor 4231 and the booktree 848. It would be real cool to have a mobile laptop with a small video camera/mic/speakers so you could video conference from the beach :-). I would also like a card which would do real-time (hardware) mpeg encoding/decoding (video and audio) with full duplex sound and video capture/playback. Of course, things like genlock, a built in programmable clock/timestamp device, and h.261/jpeg encoder/decoder would be nice, provided they didn't drive the price up too much. Then, of course, there is the multi-headed video capture/playback device. Very similar to the single channel card above, but; which could record 4 channels of video and display 4 channels of video simutaneously, as well as, 4 channel mpeg/jpeg/h.261 encode/decode and surround sound full duplex audio mpeg encode/decode. With the proper cameras, projectors, microphones, and speakers one could turn their hacking room into a cave :-). I suppose a two channel version of the above card would be useful for those who have a smaller budget and don't mind wearing funny glasses :-) -Jim