Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 18:03:01 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bt848 driver with PAL support Message-ID: <199703310203.SAA21451@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:29:23 GMT." <28115.199703300029@pitcairn.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Hi Guys, Been tied up with work ... So has anyone managed to try out Richard's improvements to the bt848 driver ? Tnks! Amancio >From The Desk Of Richard Tobin : > OK, the first version of the bt848 driver with PAL support is now > available at > > ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/richard/bt848.970329-rmt.tar.gz > > Please try it even if you're an NTSC user, to verify that it still > works. Maybe someone could put a link to it on the web page. > > To be precise, it supports PAL-I as used in the UK and some other > countries, but changes for other versions of PAL should be trivial (I > don't think we know how to distinguish the various PAL tuners, but I > don't know if we have to). > > There are still bugs. In full resolution (768x576) one field is often > not updated, producing bizarre ghosting. > > I've also changed Steve's interface to AFC. It's now > > int onoff; > ioctl(fd, TVTUNER_SETAFC, &onoff); > ioctl(fd, TVTUNER_GETAFC, &onoff); > > This allows you to query whether AFC is on so that (eg) you can set a > toggle to the right state, or restore the original state. Something > should be added to let a program determine whether AFC was successful > or not, and maybe enabling AFC should also do it immediately. > > Randall: fxtv will need to be able to select a channel set for each > of antenna and cable modes; I'll look at this tomorrow. > > -- Richard >
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