Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 12:25:18 -0600 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WinCastTV w/Color Camera Message-ID: <366EC08E.383F311E@webwizard.org.mx> References: <366DD4B0.892DC1A2@webwizard.org.mx> <366E99CD.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk> <366E9AFD.D5E9DE37@webwizard.org.mx> <366EA0D7.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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!!!! W O N D E R F U L !!!! BEAUTIFUL COLOR !!!! I would have not found that is a hundred years. I'm sending a copy back to the list. If anyone else has a WinCast/TV model 447 with a color camera. This works. Thanks again, ed Roger Hardiman wrote: > Edwin, > > > The answer to both is SVIDEO. The video camara quality is excellent > > but B&W. > > Ok, the problem is probably this > The camera uses the s-video connector to get its power, but > is really just a composite camera. > So, we need to hack the bt848 driver. > > Ok, here is the hack. I'll not send a patch as I do not have the > latest version of the driver on my system but here goes. > > 1) Find this bit of the driver..... > /* this is the S-VHS input */ > case METEOR_INPUT_DEV2: > case METEOR_INPUT_DEV_SVIDEO: > bktr->flags = (bktr->flags & ~METEOR_DEV_MASK) > | METEOR_DEV2; > bt848->iform &= ~BT848_IFORM_MUXSEL; > bt848->iform |= BT848_IFORM_M_MUX2; > bt848->e_control |= BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP; > bt848->o_control |= BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP; > set_audio( bktr, AUDIO_EXTERN ); > break; > > Then change this bit of it... > bt848->e_control |= BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP; > bt848->o_control |= BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP; > to.... > bt848->e_control &= ~BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP; > bt848->o_control &= ~BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP; > > Then select the S-Video input. > If Colour works, we'll do a better fix to the driver and FXTV. > > Bye > Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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