Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:14:42 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bt848 driver release 0.3 Message-ID: <199702252314.SAA05959@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:40:35 PST." <199702240640.WAA00896@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199702240640.WAA00896@rah.star-gate.com>
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> A couple of hackers have reported success with Hauppages's > WinCast/TV which is a Bt848 based video card. WinCast/TV is cheaper > than the Intel card plus it has much better driver support in Win95. I just wanted to echo that I just tried this new release of the driver on a brand new WinCast/TVdbx (version with stereo audio), and it seems to be working great with dtv. I got the "deluxe" version at CompUSA for $159.00; the non-stereo audio version was $129, I think. I'm curious to try dtv the "old" way, with the video in a window done the hard way. I'd like to be able to watch the video, and hack away on some code at the same time in another window. The current version using the DGA XFree86 extension sort of grabs the display away from the X server for the duration. I'm trying to figure out if it's "safe" to create a window that's "always on top" and "sticky" (that is, it moves with the view as you pan around on a desktop) and have the video blasted into it, within the window frame. I fear that I'm gonna have to learn much more about how X works than I ever wanted to.. I contacted the Brooktree people today, and I'm hoping that I'll get some docs on the Bt848, as well as their hardware eval board which looks to have the same sort of tuner assembly on it. They have some sample software for their hardware eval kit, and I'm hoping source code which might include how to talk to the tuner over the I^2C bus. louie
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