From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 18:33:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA26349 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:33:33 -0700 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA26341 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:33:30 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA05512; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 17:27:19 GMT Message-Id: <199504031727.RAA05512@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6alpha 2/16/95 To: James Binkley cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Whee - I've got my MBONE feed.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 1995 16:24:29 MST." <199504032324.QAA19719@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 17:27:17 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> James Binkley said: > > What is the status for hardware/software for acquiring and > sending video? Lucky for us that nv is available as src. > Of course, there is also vic. Don't forget imm :->! > All of the above apps have been ported to FreeBSD or are available. There are three FreeBSD hackers with their eye sites on video: Mark Tinguely Jim Lowe and me. Also, Xinside has reported that they will be supporting vide extensions for Tseng's W32 based board which have video capability. The hold up has been mostly appropiate and affordable hardware which is now becoming available. Sure there has been video and capture boards available which were either too expensive, ran on ISA bus, the playback was either a postage size stamp window, not enough colors, use a vga feature conector which is incompatible with many svga cards (example ReelMagic mpeg playback board) , etc... I think that FreeBSD can become the killer OS with support for video and 100MB ethernet cards :) Amancio