From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 17 20:16:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA08650 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.it.hq.nasa.gov (apollo.it.hq.nasa.gov [131.182.119.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA08644 Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov (wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov [131.182.119.88]) by apollo.it.hq.nasa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA14744; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:16:46 GMT Received: from localhost (cshenton@localhost) by wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA15353; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:16:24 GMT Message-Id: <199604180316.DAA15353@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov: cshenton owned process doing -bs X-Authentication-Warning: wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Video capture cards for MBONE? Laptops for MBONE? X-Mailer: Mew version 1.03 on Emacs 19.29.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:16:23 -0400 From: Chris Shenton Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been tracking some of the recent traffic on MBONE tool support, and got nv to talk to my QuickCam, and I've had vat on speaking terms with my Gus Max. I didn't find anything in the release notes or multimedia page on www.freebsd.org. I wanted to find out what the supported video capture cards are, and are expected to be, so I can jack-in a regular video camera. The Vic code indicates that the Matrox Meteor is supported. Is this in the kernel, or slated for 2.2, or ...? I'm at 2.1-RELEASE now. I'd like to build out a laptop which could do MBONE: plug a PCMCIA ethernet card in, a PCMCIA video capture card in and go. How possible is this? Do the laptops' "SoundBlaster compatible" facilities really work for vat? Some laptops? As a low-end, I'd be happy with plugging a QuickCam into the parallel port, but I'd still need audio. Thanks.