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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>,
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Subject: Re: conferencing software/hardware
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On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Roger Hardiman wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > What would be the choice for conferencing software
> > under FreeBSD 3.2 at present?
> 
> vic and vat.
> These come as standard in the FreeBSD Ports collection,
> so you can compile them (including compiling the right
> versions of TCL/TK) with the following
> 
> cd /usr/ports/mbone/vic
> make
> make install
> 
> cd /usr/ports/mbone/vat
> make
> make install
> 
> 
> For video hardware, get a Bt848 or Bt878 capture card.
> Personally, I like Hauppauge WinTV cards, but there

Ah, I have one of these cards. Is there support for the TV option
of the Hauppauge WinTV? 

> are many other makes, usually cheaper too.
> 
> 
> For audio, an ISA sound card which is MSS (microsoft sound system)
> compatible will give you full duplex support.

I have a cheapo Opti 931 based card lying around.  Is Opti support
working again?

Would pci audio cards a better choice now (I mean for bus load/cpu load
etc.?)

> 
> 
> 
> Roger

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de


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