From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 18 01:34:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA22153 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22146 Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA00310; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:33:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199604180833.BAA00310@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Ross Finlayson cc: Chris Shenton , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video capture cards for MBONE? Laptops for MBONE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:30:23 PDT." <1.5.4.16.19960418012950.0bc794b8@pop.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:33:48 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, It should be doable in the near future provided that we get hold of a pcmia video capture board and its specs. Cheers, Amancio >>> Ross Finlayson said: > I saw someone at the last IETF (in Los Angeles) showing off one of the new > high-end IBM portable computers (possibly a ThinkPad) that has a small video > camera mounted at the top of the lid (above the display). The camera could > be swiveled to either point at the user, or away from it. Anyway, this > computer was running AIX (with X-windows) and the user (an IBM employee, I > think) was showing video from the camera in a window of his display. It all > looked pretty cool. It would probably have been straightforward to hook > this into the MBone. > > The portable computer (I hesitate to call it a laptop) was quite heavy > (about 10 pounds, I think), and probably very expensive. But in a year or > two... > > Ross. >