From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 25 11:14:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA02998 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA02992 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA24670 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:02:14 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199709251702.TAA24670@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: winnov... To: multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:02:13 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently exchanged some email with Winnov to see if they have docs for their audio/video capture card. They have sent me back a zip archive with some documentation, which seems a good starting point. I still don't know if they allow source distribution of a potential FreeBSD driver but probably they will not object. Let me say that the board is an ISA device and an old design, so I would not buy it if _now_ that we have bt848 things (this would have been different a couple of years ago when the only alternative was the Meteor which was way too expensive. However it has some nice features such as integrated compression (or so they claim) and an integrated audio codec. The Videum card appears to be a 'standard' component in some videoconferencing kits on sale around here, so one might end up getting the card anyways together with other things like a cheap camera etc (much like those cheap SCSI controllers which come with scanners). So, does anyone already have this card and is willing to work on the driver ? I am willing to help. It probably uses CS42xx codecs and Philips video devices, so much can be borrowed from ad1848.c and meteor.c Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________