From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Mar 18 19:54:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05455 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:54:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05440 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18873; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:54:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199803190354.TAA18873@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jose Gabriel J Marcelino cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with the bt848 driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:53:15 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:54:33 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, This is not a known problem by any chance are you also broadcasting audio? Cheers, Amancio > > Hi, > > I was anxious to try the bt848 video capture cards, now that they're so > cheap and got myself a Miro PCTV PAL (with a Temic tuner) card which can > be found easily in Portugal. > > Then I started "broadcasting" a channel on our local ethernet using vic > (great stuff, thanks!) and got great performance, being able to send video > at nearly 30 fps (according to vic) compared to previous tries using the > Linux Bttv driver which wasn't able to get past 12 fps for some strange > reason I don't quite understand yet. > > I was very happy with this setup however in a short time our FreeBSD > system froze and needed rebooting. This began to happen very frequently > whenever we were broadcasting a video stream. > > We also found that even running fxtv for a while caused the system to > crash. > > Is this a known problem? Is there a solution? > > Our system is a Pentium 200MMX, Asus TXP4 motherboard, Matrox Mystique 4Mb > graphics card running a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system with the stock bt848 driver > and Xfree 3.3.2 with the SVGA driver > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > -- > Jose Gabriel J Marcelino > gabriel@maquina.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message