From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Nov 3 17:28:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21793 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA21787 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA26355; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:28:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Cameron Elliott cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best capture card for VIC conferencing? In-Reply-To: <345E66A8.1FA25E7@KEGO.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Cameron Elliott wrote: > I'm looking for the best possible setup > to do VIC conferencing. > Specificly, I'm wondering what capture > card is the best under FreeBSD for capture, > which card has the highest frame rate, > while affecting CPU utilization the least. > > Since H.261 can be CPU intensive, thats why I'm > asking. > My experience with a Quickcam leaves a lot > to be desired. :-) Quickcams are good for snapshots but lack in the streaming video department. The range of bt848-based cards made by Hauppauge, STB, et.al. work very nicely. They're PCI capture boards that can do overlay on your video card. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/~ahasty/Bt848.html for more info. You'll need to fetch an updated vic which has a properly modified framegrabber. I don't work for them, I'm just a satisfied customer. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major