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ftp://rah.star-gate.com/bt848.tar.gz

I would also check out Hauppage's WinCast Tv which also has a tuner which
is currently not supported however various hackers have expressed keen
interest in supporting . 

A couple of things about the Win95 Bt848 drivers, they differ first of.
You really want one which can provide "overlay" that is PCI to PCI 
transfer and also support for different video formats. The Intel
Smart Video Recorder III driver is very limited:
o no "overlay" capability
o supports only YUV9 and RGB24

Me, I am stuck with the Intel Smart Video Recorder III which is great
for writing a driver since it only has a single chip --- the Bt848.

	Enjoy,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Jamie Bowden :
> Cool.  If you will let me know where I can pull the sources for the 
> driver down, we'll get one of the cards, and see what we can see.
> 
> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > Well, I think the driver is in good shape . The dma error recovery
> > for the purpose of not missing frames needs a little bit more work.
> > 
> > All in all I think is thumbs up.
> > 
> > 	Amancio
> > 
> > >From The Desk Of Jamie Bowden :
> > > There has been alot of traffic on the bt848 cards recently, and I am 
> > > curious about the status of this driver.  STB is making a PCI card based 
> > > on this chipset for about $150US.  They are nice enough cards under 
> > > Lozedoze, and we would like to get them working in FreeBSD.
> > > 
> > > Jamie Bowden
> > > 
> > > Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Jamie Bowden
> 
> Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
>