Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:41:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail from NCSA X Mosaic 2.7b5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113193645.24708N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801121239.NAA22832@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Konrad Heuer wrote: > Has anybody made experiences with video conferencing on a FreeBSD system? Yeah, I just did it last night. My side was having a party but the remote side was a little underpowered. I think that RC564 was causing some audio choppiness though :-) > I've seen the mbone tools in the package directory, but found no information about > digitizing video input on a FreeBSD driven PC. One word: BT848. Anything Bt848 based (Hauppauge WinCast/TV, STB TV/PCI, others) rocks, and they're cheap (about $100 now). Just grab a card, a camera with a RCA video out, a high bandwidth network connection, and someone to chat with. See http://www.freebsd.org/~ahasty/Bt848.html. > I was successful in using the Network Audio System with my sound card > using the SoundBlaster device driver. Thus I hope at less audio > conferencing could work ... The audio tools don't use NAT. And unfortunately SoundBlasters are too unstable to be truly useful for conferencing. The Crystal CS4231 -based cards are quite good since they can do full duplex in/out. My GUS PnP (which is discontinued (sob)) and Yamaha cards work well. Contact multimedia@freebsd.org for further information. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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