Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 01:11:41 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Matt tv channel?? Message-ID: <199605100811.BAA00620@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 1996 22:54:07 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960509224829.20222K-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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I forgot omnimedia video OmniMedia Sequence-P1S (meteor like card) sells for $299. http://www.omt.com You may try to consider getting a P5 P166 to transmit high frame rates and of course this depends on the content . At work , I had the opportunity to install FreeBSD on a P166 and vic was just simply nice sometimes cranking out 30 frames / sec for instance while drinking a can of coke in front of the camera. A P6 166 would probably take care of you however the motherboard alone costs > $2000 :( For memory , I would get 32mb. 16MB is okay however 32MB of main memory is nice to have specially if you are doing true color stuff. HINT: Don't skimp out on the memory cause I think that later on you may need it 8) END OF HINT I wouldn't get the Xinside server for video stuff because then you may loose a TV 8) Jim modified the meteor driver so it can dump raw video to the frame buffer . Xinside does not make the frame buffer available at the application level however they have other stuff which you may be interested. Hint: I have an S3 968 which works really good in true color the Matrox stuff drops drastically in performance in true color;however, if you don't mind running in 256 colors then the Matrox Millinium is one of the fastest cards in the market. I think that Thomas Roell clocked the Matrox Millenium to 1,000,000 xstones on a P5 166. For sure you want a GUS PnP Pro the standard model comes with 512k and thats more than adequate for mbone stuff. NEC has a new line of monitors which are okay to watch tv so you may want to look around ... > On Wed, 8 May 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > BTW: Matt if you can muster to get a matrox meteor or the omnimedia > > matrox meteor clone and a gus pnp you can broadcast your own show 8) > > Sorry for butting in here, but ... > > If I were to build the ultimate FreeBSD MBone machine, what would be the > specs that would be pretty cheap? > > . Omnimedia ??? (can't remember the name) > . GUS PnP Pro with ??MB onboard RAM (how much?) > . How big a Pentium? > . XInside server > > Anyone got any prices offhand? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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