Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 02:00:14 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: matrox meteor and the Natoma chipset.... Message-ID: <199701221000.CAA03787@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi Thomas sent me this and I thought that it will be nice to share it with you guys.. I wouldn't trust this solution too much given that the Meteor can still crash my PPRO using "tv" and saving files to disk however for those stuck with a Meteor and a Natoma chipset it may be worth a try to modify vic to use yuv packed mode. If people have problems doing this conversion I willbe more than happy to post my version of the grabber-meteor.cc for vic which uses yuv packed mode. It works fine with my bt848 pci card and the meteor. Regards, Amancio >From: Andrew Swan [SMTP:aswan@cs.berkeley.edu] >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 1997 8:12 PM >To: rsanchez@hertz.tisl.ukans.edu >Cc: mbone-na@isi.edu >Subject: Re: VIC 2.7a38 with Matrox Meteor under Linux (2.0.14)? > >> I am in the process of setting up vic 2.7a38 with Matrox Meteor support >> on a Linux 2.0.14 system. I'm using the linux matrox meteor driver >> meteor-1.4b.tar.tgz (from ftp://ftp.rwii.com/pub/linux/system/Meteor/ ) >> and I get it to work with all the test programs provided in the release. >> However, when using vic with matrox support (2.7a38), although the matrox >> device is recognized (and initialized accordingly with the right port RCA >> selected) nothing seems to happen when the transmit button is pressed >> (neither video is captured nor bytes are transmitted). > >Sometime last fall there were 3 or 4 people who independently announced >hacked versions of the meteor grabber for linux to the meteor mailing >list (meteor-users@rwii.com). I don't have all the old announcements >around but the one we have been using here is at > ftp://bmrc.berkeley.edu/pub/misc/grabber-meteor.cc > >Our version was modified to work with the slightly different linux >device abstraction as well as to grab frames with yuv samples packed >and then copy them to separate planes since grabbing planar frames >locked up our P6s with Natoma PCI chipsets. > >-Andrew > >-- >Andrew Swan -- aswan@cs.berkeley.edu >http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aswan/ >Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Computer Science
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