Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:13:03 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Brooktree 848A video digitizer chip Message-ID: <37BFDB3F.3BA0188E@brwn.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990819051553.20420I-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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Hi, I just had look on the web site (http://www.hauppage.com/html/impact.htm) They are selling a "ImpactVCB board" which is based on the Brooktree 848A video digitizer chip. Will this work on FreeBSD? Regards Willem Brown Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ben Pepa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The company I work for is looking to have 4 webcams in various parts of > > our facilities. We currently run FreeBSD boxes for servers and is there > > a way to hook them up to my server. > > > > QuickCam's are probably not going to work because the cameras are going > > to be 20-30 feet away from the servers, so would there be a video capture > > card solutions that supports FreeBSD that could use ordinary NTSC camera's > > and stream the images over the internet? > > > > If anyone has any experience with webcams, I'd be very interested to > > talking to you. > > I'm not exactly a "web-cam kind of guy" :) however, I do know that > my brooktree based card is wicked cool, it takes various video in, > and captures at a very nice framerate: > > http://www.hauppage.com/ > > you'll want to look at the "fxtv" port in /usr/ports > > enjoy, > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] > systems administrator and programmer > Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- --------------------------------------------------------------- BRWN.ORG (e): willem@brwn.org P.O. Box 3556, Springs (w): +2711-360-1212 South Africa, 1560 (f): +2711-360-1620 ---------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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