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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:57:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cheap and Cheaper video capture 8)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970610225735.7038A-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <199706110206.TAA09600@rah.star-gate.com>

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are these miro cards yet known to work with the Bt848 driver for freebsd?

On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:

> 
> NCA in Palo Alto , California is selling the Miro PCTV (Bt848 PCI based 
> card) for $109 and  Miro is offering a $20 dollar rebate.
> 
> Tom just reported a cheap bt848 with a camera:
> 
> pusateri@jnx.com said:
> > Tom Pusateri <pusateri@jnx.com> Subject: another bt-848 card Date: 
> > Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:01:51 -0400 From: Tom Pusateri <pusateri@jnx.com>
> 
> > Just wanted to let you guys know, I picked up a video camera and  
> > capture card the other day at Fry's. It is called "The Smart One" 
> > from "Best Data". It was $219.00 for both the camera and card.
> 
> > Digital Video Color Camera	DCC100 Video Capture Card		VCC100 Both				
> > HCC100		$219.00
> 
> > See http://www.bestdata.com/prod.htm for more info.
> 
> > After installing the driver from you bt848 page, it worked perfectly 
> > with the vic binary from ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/vic.bktr.gz. 
> 
> The Bt848 cards are known to have problems with SiS and VIA PCI chipsets.
> The driver as it is today works rather well with Intel Natoma and 
> Triton II PCI chipsets.
> 
> For further info on what is available for Bt848 cards see:
> http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html
> 
> Try not to disturb the multimedia mailing list cause we all are watching
> TV 8)
> 
> 	Enjoy,
> 	Amancio
> 	
> 



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