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To: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Subject: Re: Video Capture for FreeBSD 
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:27:04 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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first off they all are good cards.

Some prefer the WinCast/TV because it has better drivers under Win95 than
STB PC TV. The Intel Smart Video Recorder has got to win the award
for the most minimal driver support -- no "pci to pci transfer" no
yuv12, no rgb15 , no rgb16, etc... Sometimes I ask myself how Intel
managed to write a functionable driver well I sort of know the origin
politics 8)

The Intel Smart Video Recorder III has a minimal hardware
implementation it just has a single Bt848 chipset.

WinCastTV and STB PC TV both incorporate tv tunner circuitry and cost
less than the Intel Smart Video Recorder III.

Steve Passe I believe has a head start in terms of providing tuner
support for his STB PC TV --- see http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html

We should probably use his web page for on-going experimental work coordination
for the Bt848 driver and related efforts.You see I am a consultant and I 
don't have a lot of time to devote to coordination efforts for instance 
my current contract is in San Diego and I live in San Francisco. And is
starting to look like pretty soon I better check-in the driver so you guys
can go nuts with it 8)

Here is a listing of street prices:

Intel Smart Video Recoder III  around $179
WinCastTV                      around $149
STB PC TV                      around $149


I wish I had a WinCast/TV however I must confess that to start writing
a Bt848 driver from scratch the Intel card was not a bad deal since
the card all it has is a Bt848.

	Hope this helps,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "David Langford" :
> Doug White
> >On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> The latest Bt848 device driver supports the following cards:
> >> 
> >> o	WinCast/TV
> >> o       STB PC TV
> >> o       Intel Smart Video Recorder III
> 
> Would anyone mind doing a review of these cards versus eachother?
> 
> So this makes the current (on market) FreeBSD capture cards up to
> five???? (Matrox Meteor and Onmimedia)
> 
>   Still need to figure out if my Matrox will work with this setup.
> Has anyone figure out if the new ATI super-jesus 3D card will
> be supported by any of the X's?
> 
> 
> Most cool...
> 
> -David Langford
>  langfod@dihelix.com
>