From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 17 12:55:44 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA10037 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 12:55:44 -0800 Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA10028 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 12:55:32 -0800 Received: by plains.NoDak.edu; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:54:58 -0600 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:54:58 -0600 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199503172054.AA25370@plains.NoDak.edu> To: magnus@quark.lu.se, mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Audio Video support for FreeBSD ? Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org, torsten@haxan.quark.lu.se, ulrik@haxan.quark.lu.se Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I also have a ComputerEyes/RT board; they sent (well, > sold...) me their developer's kit which I received yesterday; I plan to > see if I can get something working in the next few weeks (unless someone > else has already done so????? :{) the ComputerEyes Media Vision RT driver is in the "pub/FreeBSD/incoming" directory on wcarchive.cdrom.com. there is also a version nv that uses the driver in the same directory (ls *mft*). as my standard disclaimer the Computer Eyes Media Vision RT board that has a driver is the interuptless and does not map the frame buffer to I/O space. all 3 bytes by 512x480 pixel must be read through an I/O port and the is SLOW (20 seconds 386/25MHz, a couple seconds pentium/90 MHz) -- defintely not real time. it does work good for MBONE conferencing tools (such as nv) or Web frame grabber. halfing the interlace and skipping a pixel could cut these times by about 3. --mark.