Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:45:26 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv - NTSC taps Message-ID: <20000406184525.A25038@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <38ECAF41.AC039705@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:37:38PM %2B0100 References: <200004061456.QAA80483@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <38ECAF41.AC039705@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Roger Hardiman wrote: > Christoph, > > yes, FXTV can record to disk > (although in all these years maintaining the bktr driver, i've > never actually done this!) Ah, very good. > > Does your VCR output NTSC for NTSC tapes, or does it > convert NTSC to PAL and output PAL? If I only knew that. I just bought a cheapo one in a TV store and convinced that it could read my tape and display to a TV (PAL) set. So I suspect, it outputs PAL or something the TV set can cope with. > > If the VCR outputs PAL (even for NTSC tapes) just use FXTV > as normal. > > If the VCR outputs NTSC for NTSC tapes, you need a Hauppauge > card with a Bt878 chip on. (not an 848). the 878 cards can > grab both PAL and NTSC video formats from the > composite video in. I will see tomorrow when I will take th VCR to the machine in the campus and see what happens. > It can only grab PAL via the tuner. > > > > Roger Thanks. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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