From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Dec 28 13:06:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA24914 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 13:06:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA24909 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 13:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from PacBell.TelcoSucks.org (msn-59.hl-1.msn.eunet.de [194.175.90.59]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id NAA19010; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 13:12:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961228130712.0076ee94@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net> X-Sender: ulf@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (32) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 13:07:25 -0800 To: Luigi Rizzo , multimedia@freebsd.org From: Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: Anyone knows this card ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:39 PM 12/28/96 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >Hi, > >today at a localstore I found a PCI frame grabber based (from the >picture on the box) on the Bt848. The board is called WinTV/PC >model 406 from Hauppauge and seems to have info available on the >net at > > http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/index.htm > >(this is the model which does not support an optional MPEG board, the >picture is at http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/html/wc_data.htm#Overview) > >Anyone knows something about this board ? > >For the records, the board, with a built-in tuner and teletext >decoder -- unless it is decoded in software! -- is sold for Itl. >403.000 incl.VAT. -- approx US$250; on the same shelf there is a >Snappy for approx US$330, so I think it might be found a bit cheaper >than this. That board is based on a chipset from Chips&Technology with additional chips from Phillips connected with a I2C bus. I once programmed stuff for boards like these. Wrote for example a software decoder for the Videotext. The last revision of the boards I know, didn't worked good with digital mix, as it didn't had fast enough ADC stuff for this. Because of this most boards are done with an analog mixing, which results in a bad quality. > >Amancio, any resemblance with the Intel board you have ? > > Luigi >-----------------------------+-------------------------------------- >Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione >email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa >tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) >fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ >_____________________________|______________________________________ > Ulf. ----------------------------------------------------------- Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073