From owner-freebsd-announce Mon Aug 21 08:08:32 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA24060 for announce-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:08:32 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA24048 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:08:25 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA11291 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:08:22 -0700 Prev-Resent: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:08:22 -0700 Prev-Resent: "announce@freebsd.org " Forwarded: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:03:36 -0700 Forwarded: "argv@well.com " Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.org (freefall.cdrom.com [192.216.222.4]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA11221 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:54:18 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA23520 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:54:15 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA00387 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:51:30 -0700 Received: from plains.nodak.edu (plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA00382 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:51:27 -0700 Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.6.11/8.6.10) id JAA19802; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 09:51:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 09:51:25 -0500 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199508211451.JAA19802@plains.nodak.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Matrox Meteor Capture Card Driver Announcement Content-Length: 2070 Resent-To: announce@freebsd.org Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:08:22 -0700 Resent-Message-ID: <11289.809017702@time.cdrom.com> Resent-From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk ************* Announcing the Matrox Meteor Video Capture Driver. ************* The Meteor is a reasonably priced capture card for PCI (*see warning below) bus computers. The Meteor is sold directly from Matrox** at: Canada and USA 514-685-2630 or 1-800-361-4903 (voice) 514-685-2853 (fax) UK 0793.614.002 (voice) 0793.614.336 (fax) Asia Pacific 852.877.5387 (voice) 852.556.9104 (fax) France (1) 45 60 62 00 (voice) (1) 45 60 62 05 (fax) ** this information is provided for your general information. we in no way represent the interest of Matrox. The Meteor driver delivers video frames in YUV packed, YUV planer, 16 bit RGB, and 24 bit RGB format. The Meteor driver provides a traditional read(2) interface as well as memory mapped access to data for single frame capture, continuous capture, and synchronous ring buffer capture modes. Using the DB9 interface, the Meteor driver can choose to capture a single video signal from up to four video sources. The Meteor driver also comes with a document of ioctl, a directory of programming examples that create PPM files for each output format, and source code and patches to run the nv conferencing program. The Meteor driver kit can be found at: ftp://joy.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/pub/matrox.tgz ftp://ftp.cs.uwm.edu/pub/FreeBSD/meteor.1.0.tgz It is also included in FreeBSD 2.2-current. Authors: Jim Lowe (james@miller.cs.uwm.edu) Mark Tinguely (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu) * Warning: the Meteor does not work with all PCI chipsets. A MERCURY chipset motherboard is almost certain to NOT work with the Meteor. A NEPTUNE chipset motherboard with a PCI video card may hang with heavy Meteor use. So it is wise to use a "SATURN" or "TRITON" chipset motherboard and also limit the number of PCI bus-mastering devices on that bus. We had difficulties getting the Meteor capture card to work with systems that also use the NCR PCI SCSI boards. It is also wise to have 16 or more Megabytes of RAM in the computer. 1.0 Aug 21, 1995: Initial Release