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Date:      Fri, 03 Oct 1997 19:19:46 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Video-Capture 
Message-ID:  <199710040219.TAA06529@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 1997 15:28:46 EDT." <199710031928.PAA10104@server.id.net> 

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Questions related to video and/or audio to the multimedia mailing list:
multimedia@freebsd.org

We can capture 640x480 32bits at 30fps  with Bt848 based cards such
as the WinCast TV PCI for further info visit the Bt848 project web page:

http://www.freebsd.org/~hasty/Bt848.html

	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Robert Shady :
> Out of the video capture cards that are supported under FreeBSD, which one
> would be considered the best?  Meaning...
> 
> 
> 1. It is still readily available..
> 2. It can capture at least
>    640x480 @ 15 frames/sec. in 16bit or better color.
> 3. Has decent developers support available..
> 4. Has support for video-in (either RCA or S-Video)
> 
> Would be nice to have video-out as well, but not necessary at this point.
> I'm looking at buying a ton of these, so I need some good info and most of
> the boxes I could find, or websites I went to were very misleading...
> Ie: Some say 320x240 @ 60fps (were fps = fields per second, wutz dat? it
> ain't a frame cause further down it said 320x240 @ 10 frames per second)
> 
> Suggestions, comments, ec.
> 
> BTW, in case you don't know, "supported" video captures devices are
> (according to RELNOTES.TXT in 3.0)
> 
> Connectix QuickCam
> Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
> Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
> Cortex1 frame grabber
> Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
> STB TV PCI
> 
> 
> 




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