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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 09:47:58 -0400
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fun stuff
Message-ID:  <3B03D68E.9DB0CB4B@mitre.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105170619430.94113-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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Jamie Bowden wrote:
> 
> I'd just like to say thanks guys.  I've got my laptop doing s-video out to
> my Pinnacle Systems Studio PCTV Pro PCI card (Conexant Fusion 878a (aka
> bt878)) and it's working very nicely with fxtv.  I had to force the tuner
> to Temic in my config file, which wasn't a big deal.  This thing has a
> stereo FM tuner on it as well.  Anyone know of any way to make it work?
> 
> If anyone is interested, the Studio PCTV PCI (non Pro) is the same card,
> except it uses a phillips tuner and lacks FM Stereo.  It can also be found
> for less than $50 US.  The Pro version that I have was $90 US.
> 
> Does vic plug into the bktr driver?  I'm looking for an mbone feed, and
> being able to send video would be kind of neat.

Yes.  I've used vic to broadcast TV signals around my house (just for
the heck of it :)  

How good is the picture quality from the PCTV?  I've noticed my WinTV98
card amplifies any noise in the line (thank you crappy wiring!) giving
me distinctive interference patterns on some channels and vertical gray
lines in others.  All in all I'm kinda disappointed.


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