From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 15 6:30:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8251137B423 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06909 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15275 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:27:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G0XK6O00.7E5; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:30:24 -0400 Message-ID: <39C22479.ED22279@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:30:33 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video capture for laptops References: <39BFEDD4.56FFB8@mitre.org> <14785.45776.480304.617716@vbook.express.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > > Andresen,Jason R. writes: > > > Does anybody know of any PCMCIA video capture cards that work under > > FreeBSD? I know this is a longshot, but I'm hoping there is some little > > obscure company that is producting bt848 based PCMCIA cards that my > > net searches simply havn't turned up. > > I know that sony VAIO laptops have onboard vidio input/output > controller and port (i.Link) possible to transfer vidio, but I havn't > heared about FreeBSD driver for it :( > > I think it about this port: > ... > chip1: at device 9.0 on pci0 > ... I've actually looked into those Sony Motion-Eye cameras. They use a special Yamaha chip that connects to the PCI bus. There is a very Linux centric userland program that can suck data off of the camera on some VAIO laptops, but would require major hackery to get working under FreeBSD. The Linux program can be found on http://samba.org/picturebook/ -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message