From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Apr 16 9:58:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.radio-do.de (trinity.Radio-do.de [193.101.164.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CE915975 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fn@trinity.radio-do.de) Received: (from fn@localhost) by trinity.radio-do.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA01010; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:55:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from fn) To: Roger Hardiman Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bt848 + teletext decoding References: <3717623E.D8DA0FD4@cs.strath.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Frank Nobis Date: 16 Apr 1999 18:55:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: Roger Hardiman's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:15:58 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Roger" == Roger Hardiman writes: It works for me ! :-) Roger> A followup to my recent post about Teletext on bt848 cards. Roger> I still cannot get the Java teletext viewing program to run Roger> in Netscape. I tried 4.04 4.07 and 4.5 I tried with IE and the good old netscape 3.04, both do the job. Roger> However, it does work with the appletviewer in JDK 1.1.7 Roger> As a summary. The bt848 driver outputs raw VBI data (raw Roger> data from the top of the TV signal) to /dev/vbi. The Roger> vbidecode program reads this and extracts teletext Roger> pages. These are saved as 100_01.vtx 101_01.vtx 102_01.vtx Roger> etc for pages 100,101,102 Roger> Then you need a vtx viewer. 2 exist. One is written in Roger> Java. It runs just fine in the JDK applet viewer. (cannot Roger> make it run in Netscape) Roger> One is written in C as an X11 application. It works. Is a Roger> pain to set up. Puts files all over the place and needs Roger> speical X Fonts setting up. It has many more Roger> features. Infact the feature list is very impressive. But Roger> for now I just want you to experiment with the Java viewer Roger> as it is much simpler to support. Can you point me to the sources ? I would like to give it a try. Regards Frank -- Frank Nobis Email: PGP AVAILABLE Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ 44139 Dortmund Powered by SMP FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message