Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:53:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Jose Gabriel J Marcelino <gabriel@maquina.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Trouble with the bt848 driver Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980319023856.23498B-100000@einstein.fisica.ist.utl.pt>
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Hi, I was anxious to try the bt848 video capture cards, now that they're so cheap and got myself a Miro PCTV PAL (with a Temic tuner) card which can be found easily in Portugal. Then I started "broadcasting" a channel on our local ethernet using vic (great stuff, thanks!) and got great performance, being able to send video at nearly 30 fps (according to vic) compared to previous tries using the Linux Bttv driver which wasn't able to get past 12 fps for some strange reason I don't quite understand yet. I was very happy with this setup however in a short time our FreeBSD system froze and needed rebooting. This began to happen very frequently whenever we were broadcasting a video stream. We also found that even running fxtv for a while caused the system to crash. Is this a known problem? Is there a solution? Our system is a Pentium 200MMX, Asus TXP4 motherboard, Matrox Mystique 4Mb graphics card running a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system with the stock bt848 driver and Xfree 3.3.2 with the SVGA driver Thanks for any help you can give me. -- Jose Gabriel J Marcelino gabriel@maquina.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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