Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:33:55 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> To: Faisal M Chaudhry <faisalc@cs.tamu.edu> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with Bt848 driver Message-ID: <36060F73.2781@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <199809190149.UAA22309@swallow.cs.tamu.edu>
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Faisal M Chaudhry wrote: > > I am actually trying to determine whether it would be > better for me to install Hauppage's Wincast/TV on a linux system or > on FreeBSD. I've do alot of work on the FreeBSD driver so I would be biased to FreeBSD :-) I've taken a look at the Linux driver too. My opinion is this FreeBSD driver: Good Capture (for vic) and DMA transfer modes for TV viewing. Can watch TV even without the DMA transfer mode for older video cards. Well supported by vic. Can read the Config details from the Hauppauge EEPROMs for automatic card (and tuner type) configuration). Not yet finished the MSP34xx driver. Linux BTTV driver. Started life as a DMA transfer mode driver (for TV viewing) and added some video capture support later. Not sure on the vic status. However it does support NICAM MSP34xx stereo decoder chips which I have not finished implementeing in the FreeBSD driver. Brad Parker ported the FreeBSD driver to Linux about a year ago because for use with vic. I presume that was before the linux bttv driver had its video capture support. Bye Roger Hardiman Stratghclyde Uni Telepresence Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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