From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 4:13:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gauntlet.glasssa.com (gauntlet.glasssa.com [196.33.55.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E65B14BFE for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 04:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@brwn.org) Received: by gauntlet.glasssa.com; id NAA28350; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:32 +0200 (SAT) Received: from unknown(192.168.10.10) by gauntlet.glasssa.com via smap (4.1) id xma028323; Sun, 22 Aug 99 13:13:11 +0200 Received: from firefly.pfg.co.za (gw-ff01.pfg.co.za [192.168.10.1]) by sleepy.pfg.co.za (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA11866 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:09 +0200 Received: from gway-1.brwn.org (root@gway-4.brwn.org [192.168.4.1]) by firefly.pfg.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA05557 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:07 +0200 Received: from grumpy.brwn.org (grumpy.brwn.org [192.168.1.10]) by gway-1.brwn.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA01705 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:04 +0200 Received: from brwn.org (grumpy.brwn.org [192.168.1.10]) by grumpy.brwn.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA08276 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:03 +0200 Message-ID: <37BFDB3F.3BA0188E@brwn.org> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:03 +0200 From: Willem Brown Organization: BRWN.ORG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-1final i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Brooktree 848A video digitizer chip References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I just had look on the web site (http://www.hauppage.com/html/impact.htm) They are selling a "ImpactVCB board" which is based on the Brooktree 848A video digitizer chip. Will this work on FreeBSD? Regards Willem Brown Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ben Pepa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The company I work for is looking to have 4 webcams in various parts of > > our facilities. We currently run FreeBSD boxes for servers and is there > > a way to hook them up to my server. > > > > QuickCam's are probably not going to work because the cameras are going > > to be 20-30 feet away from the servers, so would there be a video capture > > card solutions that supports FreeBSD that could use ordinary NTSC camera's > > and stream the images over the internet? > > > > If anyone has any experience with webcams, I'd be very interested to > > talking to you. > > I'm not exactly a "web-cam kind of guy" :) however, I do know that > my brooktree based card is wicked cool, it takes various video in, > and captures at a very nice framerate: > > http://www.hauppage.com/ > > you'll want to look at the "fxtv" port in /usr/ports > > enjoy, > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] > systems administrator and programmer > Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- --------------------------------------------------------------- BRWN.ORG (e): willem@brwn.org P.O. Box 3556, Springs (w): +2711-360-1212 South Africa, 1560 (f): +2711-360-1620 ---------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message