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From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bt848
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Amancio Hasty:
 |
 |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.
 |> 
 |
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