Date: 16 Apr 1999 18:55:28 +0200 From: Frank Nobis <fn@Radio-do.de> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bt848 + teletext decoding Message-ID: <yge90bswlmn.fsf@trinity.radio-do.de> In-Reply-To: Roger Hardiman's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:15:58 %2B0100" References: <3717623E.D8DA0FD4@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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>>>>> "Roger" == Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> writes:
It works for me ! :-)
Roger> A followup to my recent post about Teletext on bt848 cards.
Roger> I still cannot get the Java teletext viewing program to run
Roger> in Netscape. I tried 4.04 4.07 and 4.5
I tried with IE and the good old netscape 3.04, both do the job.
Roger> However, it does work with the appletviewer in JDK 1.1.7
Roger> As a summary. The bt848 driver outputs raw VBI data (raw
Roger> data from the top of the TV signal) to /dev/vbi. The
Roger> vbidecode program reads this and extracts teletext
Roger> pages. These are saved as 100_01.vtx 101_01.vtx 102_01.vtx
Roger> etc for pages 100,101,102
Roger> Then you need a vtx viewer. 2 exist. One is written in
Roger> Java. It runs just fine in the JDK applet viewer. (cannot
Roger> make it run in Netscape)
Roger> One is written in C as an X11 application. It works. Is a
Roger> pain to set up. Puts files all over the place and needs
Roger> speical X Fonts setting up. It has many more
Roger> features. Infact the feature list is very impressive. But
Roger> for now I just want you to experiment with the Java viewer
Roger> as it is much simpler to support.
Can you point me to the sources ? I would like to give it a try.
Regards
Frank
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