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Date:      Wed, 09 Dec 1998 12:25:18 -0600
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WinCastTV w/Color Camera
Message-ID:  <366EC08E.383F311E@webwizard.org.mx>
References:  <366DD4B0.892DC1A2@webwizard.org.mx> <366E99CD.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk> <366E9AFD.D5E9DE37@webwizard.org.mx> <366EA0D7.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk>

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!!!!   W O N D E R F U L  !!!!  BEAUTIFUL COLOR   !!!!

I would have not found that is a hundred years.  I'm sending a copy back
to the list.  If anyone else has a WinCast/TV model 447 with a color
camera.  This works.

Thanks again,

ed


Roger Hardiman wrote:

> Edwin,
>
> > The answer to both is SVIDEO.  The video camara quality is excellent
> > but B&W.
>
> Ok, the problem is probably this
> The camera uses the s-video connector to get its power, but
> is really just a composite camera.
> So, we need to hack the bt848 driver.
>
> Ok, here is the hack. I'll not send a patch as I do not have the
> latest version of the driver on my system but here goes.
>
> 1) Find this bit of the driver.....
>       /* this is the S-VHS input */
>       case METEOR_INPUT_DEV2:
>       case METEOR_INPUT_DEV_SVIDEO:
>          bktr->flags = (bktr->flags & ~METEOR_DEV_MASK)
>             | METEOR_DEV2;
>          bt848->iform &= ~BT848_IFORM_MUXSEL;
>          bt848->iform |= BT848_IFORM_M_MUX2;
>          bt848->e_control |= BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP;
>          bt848->o_control |= BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP;
>          set_audio( bktr, AUDIO_EXTERN );
>          break;
>
> Then change this bit of it...
>          bt848->e_control |= BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP;
>          bt848->o_control |= BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP;
> to....
>          bt848->e_control &= ~BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP;
>          bt848->o_control &= ~BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP;
>
> Then select the S-Video input.
> If Colour works, we'll do a better fix to the driver and FXTV.
>
> Bye
> Roger


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