Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 12:06:29 -0400 From: Bill Lloyd <wlloyd@mpd.ca> To: User Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xftv Message-ID: <342E8085.1308@mpd.ca> References: <342E6C50.B181CA2F@AJC.State.Net>
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User Al Johnson wrote: > > This morning I decided to try to bring up my STB TV/PCI card under > FBSD 2.2-STABLE. I've got the xftv 0.44 package installed, the bktr0 > and tuner0 devices created and I get video.... but... > > The colors are way off and I don't get video within the Xwindow at all > at 24bpp. At first I thought I was using the entire color palette with > XV or Netscape but once I killed them off I still had the same problem. > When I drop back to 8bpp (or the default, I don't remember) I get video > contained within the Xwindow but the same color scheme. > > I'm more of a system user (at least for video) than a hacker some hand > holding my be needed. > > Any suggestions? I've got a PPro180 with STB Velocity 3D (8MB), XFree86 > 3.3.1 > all this being run by AfterStep. If need be I can include a frame grab > of the > video output, It's pretty ugly. > > -- Al > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Alan R. Johnson > President > Al Johnson Consulting Services I'm using pretty much the same setup with very good results. I'm on 2.2-stable (as of a couple days ago), fxtv-0.44, X3.3.1, afterstep and an STB TV card. I'm using a matrox card in 16bpp mode. I've had no problems at all. I just plugged some rabbit ears into the STB card, and away I go. Screen captures are quite good. I'm also running netscape etc, and havn't had any problems like that. I do sometime find that the video suffers from "jaggies". The picture looks interlaced and the lines aren't synched properly. I can usually get that to go away with resizing the window slightly with the aspect lock turned on. As a side note, does anybody have a suggestion of a cheap camera to add to the STB card? I don't own a video camera. I'm not looking for really high quality video, just something to play with. I know someone who purchased a "USR Big Picture" . That comes with it's own camera and card, and is availible for ~$200USD. I looked at the card, it is also bt848 based, any ideas if it also works with the driver? -bill -- William Lloyd (wlloyd@mpd.ca) | <http://www.mpd.ca>;
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