From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 15 23:44:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from ratatosk.sveg.se.sykes.com (proxy.sveg.se.sykes.com [195.67.11.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC90D37B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com) Received: by RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:44:18 +0100 Message-ID: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D704108BCB@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= To: 'Thomas Runge' , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Breakthrough: MPEG-2 hardware for FreeBSD ... Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:44:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Roger told me something about new Hauppauge cards with a cheap > mpeg chip on it, which can do realtime encoding/decoding as well. > So we need some abstract API for these cards and it would be cool, > if we could stay compatible with Linux' API's. It's the same chip on Hauppauges cards: Hauppauge PVR has Kfir chip on it. what I'd REALLY like to see is the driver for Hauppauge PVR... PVR's recommended retail price is 250$, around 280$ in Scandinavia at the moment. Actually we had a conversation about this kfir chip/hardware enc a little while ago, that's when I asked Hauppauge about it and here is the answer: -- From Bill Voccia -- >The PVR does use the BT878 chipset as well. >It uses a separate MPEG encoder chipset, however- the Kafir chip made by >Visiontech. > >Regards, >Bill Voccia >Hauppauge Computer Works >Technical Support Department, U.S.A. And no, I'm not just talking here... If (when) I get my hands on one of those cards, I will (at least try to) write the driver.. :) But I'd bet I won't get one of those before someone else has already written the driver. -jukkis -www.jukkis.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message