Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:47:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: roger@cs.strath.ac.uk (Roger Hardiman) Cc: glateur@mri2.rug.ac.be, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which bt-card to buy? Message-ID: <199907071047.MAA50864@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <378329D1.794B@cs.strath.ac.uk> from Roger Hardiman at "Jul 7, 1999 11:20: 1 am"
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It seems Roger Hardiman wrote: > Guy Lateur wrote: > > > > As I'm planning on buying a video-acquisition card, I was wondering if > > there are known (major) differences between the various brands. > > The main differeces are our support for the TV Tuner and > the Audio from the TV Tuner. > For some cards, you'll get no audio at all from the TV Tuner because > we do not know the specific details of the hardware on the card. > > > However, the card I would recomend right now would be one from > Hauppauge. > > I hate to recommend one brand over the other, but I like > Hauppauge cards because.... > > a) I have direct email to Hauppauge engineers who supply me with > all the technical specs I need. > > b) For those of us that Dual Boot, they always have good > Win 95,98 and NT drivers Well, just to be a pain I would also recommend the ATI line of cards, fx the ATI All-in-wonder-PRO, which is a ATI RagePRO based videocard with 8M video memory + tuner & texttv decoder, it does also have TV-out so you can hook up your TV or VCR to it, its about US$120 or so retail.. You can also get a seperate tunercard and hook that to an existing ATI graphics card. The only drawback is that it doesn't work with other than ATI video cards... Also it doesn't work with the bt drivers instead you use the GATOS userland program to control it (I have a port of that for -current). > > Some general performance estimates (fps / resolution) for > On FreeBSD with XFree86, you can expect the full 25fps (PAL) > 768x576 or 30fps (NTSC) 640x480. Well, this is where the ATI approach shines, since the tuner is on the videocard the data doesn't bug down the PCI bus, it does everything up to fullscreen TV with no framerate limit, and it doesn't slow your machines to a halt while doing it... Just my 0.25Dkr :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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