Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:19:04 -0800 From: Brian Rogers <burpmaster@truffula.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brooktree video-in on GeForce 4? Message-ID: <40090C18.30605@truffula.net> In-Reply-To: <4004083B.80903@mitre.org> References: <4003CE0D.7090407@truffula.net> <4004083B.80903@mitre.org>
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Jason Andresen wrote: > Brian Rogers wrote: > >> I have an MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4400 with dual VGA, TV-out, and TV-in. I >> currently have the first two of the three features working, but I >> haven't been able to get any capture devices detected. From my >> reading, it looks like the brooktree chipset is used by almost >> everything that has a TV-tuner or video in, but I can't be sure if >> that's what's in my > > That's almost right. The correct phrase is: "it looks like the > brooktree chipset is used by almost everything FreeBSD supports". In > particular, the BT8x8 chipset is rarely used on video cards with > TV-in, with the manufacturers almost always opting for their own TV-in > chips. > >> card. Does anybody know for sure what chip this card has, or how I >> can find out? > > Sometimes the documentation for your card will specify which chipset > it has, but I woudln't hold out much hope for it being supported in > FreeBSD. I didn't see anything in your dmesg that jumped out at me as > a possible video capture device (it will most likely show up as an > unknown PCI device). It doesn't look like it shows up as a PCI device, but I figured out what it is. I noticed this in my XFree86 log file: (--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Philips 7108 That apparently does both TV-out (which is why XF86 had something to say about it) and TV-in. I found a Linux driver at http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/. I wonder how hard it would be to port this...
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