Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:03:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fun stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105170651310.94113-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <3B03D68E.9DB0CB4B@mitre.org>
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: :Jamie Bowden wrote: :> :> I'd just like to say thanks guys. I've got my laptop doing s-video out to :> my Pinnacle Systems Studio PCTV Pro PCI card (Conexant Fusion 878a (aka :> bt878)) and it's working very nicely with fxtv. I had to force the tuner :> to Temic in my config file, which wasn't a big deal. This thing has a :> stereo FM tuner on it as well. Anyone know of any way to make it work? :> :> If anyone is interested, the Studio PCTV PCI (non Pro) is the same card, :> except it uses a phillips tuner and lacks FM Stereo. It can also be found :> for less than $50 US. The Pro version that I have was $90 US. :> :> Does vic plug into the bktr driver? I'm looking for an mbone feed, and :> being able to send video would be kind of neat. : :Yes. I've used vic to broadcast TV signals around my house (just for :the heck of it :) : :How good is the picture quality from the PCTV? I've noticed my WinTV98 :card amplifies any noise in the line (thank you crappy wiring!) giving :me distinctive interference patterns on some channels and vertical gray :lines in others. All in all I'm kinda disappointed. I've only used it with my camcorder (Sony CCD TRV67) and my laptop. Both s-video and composite work fine. Picture quality is clean from those inputs. If Cox in Fairfax, VA (formerly Media General) didn't use a two wire coaxial system, I'd have split off a segment and tested the tuner as well. Actually, I haved used the tuner. I plugged my Atari Jaguar into it. Quality was fine there as well, but that's only a single channel (3). For the price, these are nice cards. The Pro comes with a remote control as well that I forgot to mention. It's kind of neat; there's an IR sensor that plugs into a db9 serial port, and the remote sends to that. It uses a seperate app in Windows to recieve the signals and direct them to the app. It also has a twain driver in Windows, which is nice. I've used Photoshop to grab a frame, thinks it's talking to a scanner. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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