Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:26:10 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Brooktree 848A video digitizer chip Message-ID: <37C024A2.5AAD0297@ispro.net.tr> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990819051553.20420I-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <37BFDB3F.3BA0188E@brwn.org>
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The author of the brooktree code is suggesting hauppague and he is using them at work as far as I read from his page (which means that you can find support easily if something goes wrong) also in his page he tells that you may send email to multimedia@freebsd.org if you have trouble. here is the web page and latest driver sources. http://vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk/bt848/ here is something quoted from the page >I currently recomend Hauppauge and will shortly be able to recomend AVerMedia >Hauppauge >a) I bought one myself and have several different models at work, >b) I have email contact with Hauppauge Engineers (Ken and Fred), >c) They have good Windows Drivers including Windows NT (for Dual Boot users). > >AVerMedia >a) I have email contact with an AVerMedia Engineer (Frank) b) They also have good Windows Drivers >including Windows >NT drivers (for Dual Boot users). But I have not yet included proper AVerMedia code in the driver Willem Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > I just had look on the web site > (http://www.hauppage.com/html/impact.htm) They are selling a "ImpactVCB > board" which is based on the Brooktree 848A video digitizer chip. Will > this work on FreeBSD? > > Regards > Willem Brown > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ben Pepa wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > The company I work for is looking to have 4 webcams in various parts of > > > our facilities. We currently run FreeBSD boxes for servers and is there > > > a way to hook them up to my server. > > > > > > QuickCam's are probably not going to work because the cameras are going > > > to be 20-30 feet away from the servers, so would there be a video capture > > > card solutions that supports FreeBSD that could use ordinary NTSC camera's > > > and stream the images over the internet? > > > > > > If anyone has any experience with webcams, I'd be very interested to > > > talking to you. > > > > I'm not exactly a "web-cam kind of guy" :) however, I do know that > > my brooktree based card is wicked cool, it takes various video in, > > and captures at a very nice framerate: > > > > http://www.hauppage.com/ > > > > you'll want to look at the "fxtv" port in /usr/ports > > > > enjoy, > > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] > > systems administrator and programmer > > Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > BRWN.ORG (e): willem@brwn.org > P.O. Box 3556, Springs (w): +2711-360-1212 > South Africa, 1560 (f): +2711-360-1620 > ---------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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