From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Dec 29 00:17:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA19301 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA19296 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:17:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from PacBell.TelcoSucks.org (ulf@msn-30.hl-1.msn.eunet.de [194.175.90.30]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA19921; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:23:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961229001801.00698a00@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net> X-Sender: ulf@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (32) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:18:17 -0800 To: Luigi Rizzo , multimedia@freebsd.org From: Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: Anyone knows this card ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just took the time and looked at the website from Hauppauge. This are certainly not the cards anymore I worked, so I said is not valid ;-| Ulf. At 01:07 PM 12/28/96 -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >At 08:39 PM 12/28/96 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>Hi, >> >>today at a localstore I found a PCI frame grabber based (from the >>picture on the box) on the Bt848. The board is called WinTV/PC >>model 406 from Hauppauge and seems to have info available on the >>net at >> >> http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/index.htm >> >>(this is the model which does not support an optional MPEG board, the >>picture is at http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/html/wc_data.htm#Overview) >> >>Anyone knows something about this board ? >> >>For the records, the board, with a built-in tuner and teletext >>decoder -- unless it is decoded in software! -- is sold for Itl. >>403.000 incl.VAT. -- approx US$250; on the same shelf there is a >>Snappy for approx US$330, so I think it might be found a bit cheaper >>than this. > >That board is based on a chipset from Chips&Technology with additional >chips from Phillips connected with a I2C bus. I once programmed stuff for >boards like these. Wrote for example a software decoder for the Videotext. >The last revision of the boards I know, didn't worked good with digital >mix, as it didn't had fast enough ADC stuff for this. Because of this most >boards are done with an analog mixing, which results in a bad quality. > >> >>Amancio, any resemblance with the Intel board you have ? >> >> Luigi >>-----------------------------+-------------------------------------- >>Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione >>email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa >>tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) >>fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ >>_____________________________|______________________________________ >> > >Ulf. > >----------------------------------------------------------- >Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) >1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 >Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073 > > ----------------------------------------------------------- Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073