From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 19:10:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A395616A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cheapline.net (mail.cheapline.net [65.160.120.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC6643D55 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rh@matriplex.com) Received: from ts7-mail.matriplex.com (ts7-mail.matriplex.com [192.168.99.2]) by mail.cheapline.net (8.12.8p1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iBAJART1025686; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:10:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rh@matriplex.com) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:10:27 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Hodges X-X-Sender: rh@mail.cheapline.net To: Robert Krten In-Reply-To: <200412101903.OAA25713@parse.com> Message-ID: <20041210110500.T25634@mail.cheapline.net> References: <200412101903.OAA25713@parse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for FreeBSD 5.3 TV-Out capable card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:10:30 -0000 On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Robert Krten wrote: > Richard Hodges sez... > > > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Robert Krten wrote: > > > > > I tried this in freebsd-x11, but no luck; can anyone here help? > > > > > > I'm looking for a recommendation for a TV-out capable video card for the > > > Amd64 architecture on FreeBsd 5.3 (I've googed, posted in news, no luck). > > > > Are you willing to do some programming? I have a lot of the Creative > > CT7160 PCI MPEG decoder cards that can also work as a simple framebuffer > > with composite and S-video outputs. I will sell one or more for any > > reasonable offer :-) > > I'll bite, how much (cost and programming) ? Well the cost is "any reasonable offer". I mean that literally, whatever you honestly think is reasonable. (Or anyone else, I guess. Consider this an open offer...) I can provide you with a rudimentary driver that I wrote some years ago that will set up the card and let you write to the framebuffer memory. You can export this raw to user space with mmap() if you like or set up some driver write() function. The framebuffer is YUV, with three separate planes for the luma, Cr, and Cb pixels. If you have video already in YUV, that might be just the thing, or if not you can convert from RGB. Hope this helps, -Richard > -- > Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. > Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com > Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers! >