Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:00:21 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: multimedia@Freebsd.org Cc: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com> Subject: Re: Video Capture for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19970305170021.08896@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199703050427.UAA01285@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Mar 04, 1997 at 08:27:04PM -0800 References: <199703050401.SAA16536@caliban.dihelix.com> <199703050427.UAA01285@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty:
|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.
BTW, there are actually 3 WinCast TV cards:
WinCast TV around $99
WinCast TV/dbx around $149 (TV + stereo/dolby decoder)
WinCast TV/fm ? (TV/dbx + FM radio tuner)
These are CompUSA/Microcenter prices, so you can probably get them even
cheaper mail order. All use the Bt848 AFAIK (dbx does for sure).
David, in terms of a review, I don't know much about the Intel & STB cards,
but as for the WinCast, here's a short feature list I pulled together
before I put down the green for my TV/dbx. Besides what's listed Hauppauge
has recently added 16 channel preview to their MSW95 S/W. Though I'm never
in Windoze to use these features, I guess they're important to some.
Randall
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Hauppauge WinCast/TVdbx
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URL: http://206.149.250.27/index.htm
http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/index.htm
Models: WinCast/TV (Model 400) .. ~$149 ($99 at local CompUSA)
WinCast/TVdbx (Model 401) .. ~$199 ($149 at local COmpUSA)
WinCast/TVfm - has FM radio & dbx-TV
Card : single, short PCI, bus-master (DMA), plug-and-play
Chipset : Bt848 (?)
Tuner : 125 channel cable ready
Digitizer : 4:2:2 (from Tuner or Ext Video)
Sound : dbx & SAP (dbx vers)
Jacks : Audio-out jack (to sound card line in)
Audio/Video in jack(s) (from VCR, etc.)
RF in jack
VGA Reqs : NO connect. req'd (e.g. VGA feature conn); just PCI Bus
640x480-1280x1024 res support
S-video : NO
BusTransf : moves uncompressed YUV over bus to disk; YUV or RGB to vid
Capture : Img: 640x480 max NTSC
AVI: 320x240 max, 30fps
Window : Resizable
'95 Reqs : Direct Draw
PCI push support req'd of video card
Features : Intercast support/decoder S/W; close caption support
Freeze frame
Image save
VfW drivers for video movies
Hardware vert interp (use one frame; reduc motion artif)
OVERLAY MODE: Cards supported for "zoom" to full screen:
- S3 Trio64V+ and S3 ViRGE 3D
- Cirrus Logic 5446
- ATI VT and GT series of graphics display adapters,
Video card does the rescaling
YUV pushed straight to video card (PCI-to-PCI)
Requires 0.5Meg VGA mem for 4:2:2 VGA image.
Requires video port on video card
PRIMARY SURFACE MODE: Cards supported:
- S3 Trio32/64 PCI, S3 Vision968, S3 Vision 868
- Matrox Millenium and Mystique
- ATI Mach64
- Hercules Dynamite 128 and other ET6000 based VGA cards
- (And my Hercules Stingray 64/Video works fine too --RHH)
Wincast board does the rescaling
RGB pushed to straight video card (PCI-to-PCI)
Fall-back if OVERLAY MODE not supported
>= 16bpp mode
No Close Caption
TV size limited to 640x480
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