From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Dec 9 10:25:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10859 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.webwizard.net.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10854 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:25:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Received: from webwizard.org.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by dns.webwizard.net.mx (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA90140; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:25:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Message-ID: <366EC08E.383F311E@webwizard.org.mx> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 12:25:18 -0600 From: Edwin Culp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Hardiman CC: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WinCastTV w/Color Camera References: <366DD4B0.892DC1A2@webwizard.org.mx> <366E99CD.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk> <366E9AFD.D5E9DE37@webwizard.org.mx> <366EA0D7.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org !!!! 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message