Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:04:38 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Breakthrough: MPEG-2 hardware for FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <3AB0AFD6.65C37880@aurora.regenstrief.org>
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Hi, I am dreaming of a FreeBSD based high quality video conferencing set top box. And the pieces are slowly comming together. The visiontech Kfir chip has a board manufacturer (BMK-Elektronik) and LinuxTV.org distiributes sourcecode for a Linux device driver. This is the onramp for the same on FreeBSD. http://www.linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml http://www.linuxtv.org/download/mpeg2/ The best thing about this driver is: it is *simple*. I loved to hear that all you do is read bytes from the /dev/video device and stream those wherever you want them to be! And the board seems to be pretty priceless, so to speak. It says it's about EUR 330, which is less than USD 300! Anyone wants to pick up on this? I first need to see whether my institute wants to make resources available for this project ... I just browsed through the source code, and it looks as if Linux has some videodevice infrastructure, reminds me of the voxware infrastructure for soundcards that we also borrowed from Linux. Also it seems as if this suite uses the i2c bus, which I heard rumors is now also supported by FreeBSD (though couldn't find respective sources in the 4.2 RELEASE kernel.) This stuff looks like way over my head (the only severe kernel hacking / device driver stuff I ever did was the genius hand-scanner driver ...) what do you think? -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist http://aurora.regenstrief.org Regenstrief Institute for Health Care tel:1(317)630-7960 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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