From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 10 19:06:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21253 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21247 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09600 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706110206.TAA09600@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Cheap and Cheaper video capture 8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:06:47 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk NCA in Palo Alto , California is selling the Miro PCTV (Bt848 PCI based card) for $109 and Miro is offering a $20 dollar rebate. Tom just reported a cheap bt848 with a camera: pusateri@jnx.com said: > Tom Pusateri Subject: another bt-848 card Date: > Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:01:51 -0400 From: Tom Pusateri > Just wanted to let you guys know, I picked up a video camera and > capture card the other day at Fry's. It is called "The Smart One" > from "Best Data". It was $219.00 for both the camera and card. > Digital Video Color Camera DCC100 Video Capture Card VCC100 Both > HCC100 $219.00 > See http://www.bestdata.com/prod.htm for more info. > After installing the driver from you bt848 page, it worked perfectly > with the vic binary from ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/vic.bktr.gz. The Bt848 cards are known to have problems with SiS and VIA PCI chipsets. The driver as it is today works rather well with Intel Natoma and Triton II PCI chipsets. For further info on what is available for Bt848 cards see: http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html Try not to disturb the multimedia mailing list cause we all are watching TV 8) Enjoy, Amancio