Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:44:27 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone on the list with Matrox Millenium docs? Message-ID: <199705150514.OAA02239@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705150507.WAA24353@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "May 14, 97 10:07:49 pm"
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Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > Well, I just finished watching star trek: voyager at 640x480 32bits with my > S3 968 Picture is not bad at all 8) I have a tuner card that offers similar results, only I have to work out how to power it outside the PC now. Shouldn't be hard 8) > Tnks Michael for your kind offer . I suspect that the Millenium has > a silly register which we can set so we can achieved the pixel order > that I want. Hmm, hopefully. The offer was the least I could do 8) > Yes, Indeed. My Wincast/TV has a tuner and dbx stereo decoding so sound > is good and the tuner is a nice future -- you know for surfing the TV ... No, I don't know. We only have 5 channels here, and only 1.5 of them are worth watching, so it makes the "no, there's nothing on TV" process a little quicker. > > I'm kinda surprised that the Bt848 doesn't have a programmable output > > format though; how do you do "live" video into a palette-mapped or > > packed (eg 5-6-6/5-5-6) buffer? > > I don't do pallete stuff . I know you probably don't, but are you saying that the 848 is only capable of doing direct-to-video work in RGB order? Odd. *shrug* > And last but not least you can check out the Bt848 driver and fxtv. Love to. Just after I get one. For my new SMP machine. *sigh* > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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