From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Apr 6 9:45:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AA637BE0B for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/10) with ESMTP id SAA16141; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:45:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id SAA19187; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:46:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) id SAA25087; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:45:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:45:26 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Roger Hardiman Cc: Christoph Kukulies , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv - NTSC taps Message-ID: <20000406184525.A25038@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200004061456.QAA80483@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <38ECAF41.AC039705@cs.strath.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38ECAF41.AC039705@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:37:38PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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