Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:00:17 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila <sjuke@saunalahti.fi> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Another success Message-ID: <XFMail.990920230017.sjuke@saunalahti.fi>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello.
It's been an questions-and-answers - season in -newbies lately so I decided to
put in some content that is (somehow) related to the topic :)
Anyway. Last winter I trashed the Win 95 (freed 1.8 G for my MP3's) and used
only freebsd from february to late june. Then I bought a Hauppauge WinTV, and
decided to install win95 for tv-watching purposes only. I wasn't satisfied with
the fxtv properties, biggest problem was teletext reader. Well a couple of weeks
ago I heard about this new driver for tv card, and tried it with the AleVT from
ports and voila, videotext worked better than in win95 with Hauppauges own
commercial program. Then I nuked the win95 again and installed win NT 4.0, for
use with 3d programs (I'm not satisfied with blender's antialiasing, and it's
not as powerful as 3dsMax). NT kept crashing when I tried to use Wintv
program. So I concentrated on improving fxtv's properties, I had been using it
only in 320x240 mode. Now when I really studied it I made it to run
full-screen, so I had everything I could hope.
And if only could I run 3ds and photoshop on freebsd I could say goodbye
to win NT too. Photoshop I need because of it's good deinterlace filter, that
fixes interlacing problems in tv captured images. It's much better than the
Gimp's one. Well now I'm trying to read the O'Reilly's book about Perl. Anyone
know good practices to make or problems to solve with Perl?
Well well. This message maybe would belong to -multimedia because of it's
multimedia related nature but it's a nice success story and because I like to
read success stories that others write I decided to put it here.
Btw, I did ask a question and that isn't allowed but I'll take the
risk of being nailed :)
@-`--,--`---
Jukka Simila
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.990920230017.sjuke>