From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Dec 7 10:44:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA04602 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:44:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA04597 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA08050 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:44:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199612071844.KAA08050@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Intel's Smart Video Recorder III Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 10:44:27 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Smart Video Recorder III is the new intel PCI video capture board which lists for $200 and it is supposed to work with the Pentium PRo. The card has one chipset the BrookTree 848 8) What I am wondering is if any one is working on a device driver for the card? If so please let me know. I just got the databook for the BrookTree 848 and I am thinking about writing a device driver for the card. From what I can tell the hardest part is going to be to write a program to control the dma risc engine. Unlike traditional dma chipset dma instructions the 848 executes dma by running a dma program from the host's memory. At any rate, it looks like a nice video capture board and it is cheap. Enjoy, Amancio