From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Feb 7 04:31:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24091 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 04:31:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA24080 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 04:31:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 7:28:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05074; Fri, 7 Feb 97 07:28:45 EST Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA25503; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 07:26:47 -0500 Message-Id: <19970207072647.PF10614@ct.picker.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 07:26:47 -0500 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: ken@stox.pr.mcs.net (Kenneth P. Stox), hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuner/capture options for FreeBSD References: <199702061140.MAA02619@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Kenneth P. Stox on Feb 6, 1997 09:27:16 -0600 Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kenneth P. Stox: |I currently have the Hauppauge WinCast/TV working with Amancio's bt848 |driver. It works great. I can select from different sources, ie. Tuner or |video in, but I have no control over the tuner. When I get the time, I |hope to be able to get the info from Hauppauge and/or their chip vendor on |how to program the tuner. It should be pretty simple, but I haven't done |it yet, so it is an open question. | |BTW, this is running under 3.0-current. Sounds good. Say, I was reading-up on the Hauppauge board last night and it looks promising. It says it does DMA transfer straight from the Wincast to the video board, with scaling taking place on the Wincast or video board depending on the video board's capabilities. Which brings up my main question: Under FreeBSD (with your driver, Amancio), what are the requirements on the video board for the Wincast (DMA transfer, etc.) to work? Are there any other potential gotchas I should look out for (e.g. what is "PCI Push" capability in the Hauppauge lingo? Memory aperture support?). In particular, I'm interested as to whether I can use this with my Hercules Stingray 64/Video 2M PCI. Also, I'm interested in getting some programming specs for this board (tuner, digitizer, etc.). I've got mail out to Hauppauge, but if you have a line on this already, I'd appreciate any pointers you could give. Thanks, Randall _____________________________________________________________________________ Hauppauge WinCast/TVdbx _____________________________________________________________________________ URL: http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw Models: WinCast/TV (Model 400) .. ~$149 WinCast/TVdbx (Model 401) .. ~$199 WinCast/TVfm - has FM radio & dbx-TV Card : single, short PCI, bus-master, plug-and-play Chipset : ? Tuner : 125 channel cable ready Digitizer : 4:2:2 (from Tuner or Ext Video) Sound : dbx SAP (dbx vers) Jacks : Audio-out jack (to sound card) Audio/Video in jack(s) (from VCR, etc.) VGA Reqs : NO connection req'd (e.g. VGA feature conn) 640x480-1280x1024 support S-video : NO BusTransf : moves uncompressed YUV over bus Capture : Img: 640x480 max, CCIR601, sq pix PAL (NOT sq pix NTSC) AVI: 320x240 max, 30fps Window : Resizable '95 Reqs : Direct Draw 4.0 (S/W page has version that allegedly works with DD 3.0) PCI push support req'd of video card Features : Intercast support Freeze frame Image save VfW drivers for movies Hardware vert interp (use one frame; reduc motion artif) OVERLAY MODE: Cards officially supported for "zoom" to full screen: - S3 Trio64V+ and S3 ViRGE 3D - Cirrus Logic 5446 - ATI VT and GT series of graphics display adapters, Video card does the rescaling Requires 0.5Meg VGA mem for 4:2:2 VGA image. Requires video port on video card PRIMARY SURFACE MODE: Cards officially supported: - S3 Trio32/64 PCI, S3 Vision968, S3 Vision 868 - Matrox Millenium and Mystique - ATI Mach64 - Hercules Dynamite 128 and other ET6000 based VGA cards Wincast board does the rescaling Fall-back if OVERLAY MODE not possible >= 16bpp mode No Close Caption TV size limited to 640x480 Other Hauppauge cards: - Win/TV (PCI, Bt848KPF) - Win/TV-Celebrity, HighQ and CinemaPro, VideoMagic, WinMotion60