Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:44:03 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: bill@proto.math.ucdavis.edu, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video capture Message-ID: <199705140344.UAA01937@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 17:02:26 CDT." <199705132202.RAA23337@plains.nodak.edu>
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Also the Bt848 cards are cheap . I bought my Wincast/TV dbx stereo for $120 8) The meteor because it does not require a risc program to drive the dma crontroller probably produces video better however the high costs of the cards makes them a little unattractive in lieu of cheap bt848 cards. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Mark Tinguely : > > Is the matrox driver the most developed? > > the meteor and clones are good cards but a lot of new activity has been > on the BT848 based cards because a PCI bug in the Phillips chipset used > in the Meteor will not allow the Meteor and clone to work in Pentium Pro > machines. For information on the BT848 driver and cards, see: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html > > --mark.
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