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Subject: Re: Cheap and Cheaper video capture 8) 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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We suspect that the driver will work with this card. The Bt848 cards
come with a limited selection of tuners and we haven't a encountered
a single Bt848 card that does not work with the driver.

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Ben Black :
> are these miro cards yet known to work with the Bt848 driver for freebsd?
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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 <pusateri@jnx.com> Subject: another bt-848 card Date: 
> > > Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:01:51 -0400 From: Tom Pusateri <pusateri@jnx.com>
> > 
> > > 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
> > 	
> >