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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bt848 framgrabber (Hauppauge or Miro) ?
Date: 25 May 1997 21:45:20 GMT
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JRB <qwert@interaccess.com+> wrote:
|Henrik Andersson wrote:
|> The reason I would like to try the Miro board instead of the Hauppauge
|> board is that it seems the the Hauppauge board fail to run at anything
|> higher then the normal 33MHz PCI-clock. 37.5 and 41.5MHz PCI busses is
|> pretty normal these days. Deos anyone know if the Miro board support
|> more then 33MHz PCI ?
I also have to chime-in here. My Wincast/TV runs fine @ 41.5Mhz PCI with
my STB Velocity 3D, in FreeBSD and in MSWindoze95. Default BIOS settings
except I needed to lock the IDE HD channels down to "Mode 3" from "Auto"
(ASUS P55T2P4 MB).
|> Which one is the best to use with FreeBSD or Linux,
|> and win95 ?
Well, in FreeBSD we've got solid Bt848 support in place, and a TV app that
does direct video (given a compatible video card). It can also do color
conversion on the CPU so TV is supported with most video modes and cards.
Plenty of bells and whistles still out there to implement though.
Feel free to check out these URLs:
http://multiverse.com/~rhh/fxtv/
http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html
Most of the FreeBSD Bt848 folks monitor the multimedia@freebsd.org list.
Please feel free to mail me and/or the list if you have any questions.
Listserv addr is Majordomo@freebsd.org if you want to subscribe.
There's a Linux bt848 driver out there too. Last I heard, it didn't
support direct video yet though.
Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com