From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Sep 11 15:00:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17459 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17454 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:00:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA20738; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:00:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA14278; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:00:26 -0600 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:00:26 -0600 Message-Id: <199809112200.QAA14278@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: pusateri@juniper.net (Tom Pusateri), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NogaTech PCMCIA video cards In-Reply-To: <199809111808.UAA20230@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199809111851.OAA11789@extreme.jcmax.com> <199809111808.UAA20230@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Has anyone taken a look at these PCMCIA video cards? > > I'm looking for a way to run VIC on a laptop and source multicast video. > > not the same thing but have you considered a parallel port camera > (e.g. quickcam) instead ? For as bad as it can be, I am not really > sure that the PCMCIA bus has the necessary bandwidth to support > uncompressed video, so you either end up with low res/frame rate, > or with an already compressed stream and your chances to be able > to decode it severely decrease. FWIW, a PCMCIA camera has *TONS* more bandwidth and *TONS* less interrupt load than the ISA bus (which is what the PCMCIA bus essentially is). We used a parallel port camera for awhile, but the performance and load on the system became so bad that we were forced to switch to a PCMCIA camera, which works much nicer. (Note, this is under Win95, but the hardware issues are the same as in FreeBSD.) The PCMCIA bus has all the bandwidth you need, and the new CardBus stuff (not supported in FreeBSD) has even more, being 'pluggable' PCI as compared to ISA. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message