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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: which video capture card?
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 02:35:56 -0700
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To: Wilson Tam Siu Hom <wilson@iti.gov.sg>
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We don't have a driver for SAA 7146;however, we do have a driver
for Bt848 based cards. For further info see :
http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html

or post to the multimedia mailing list :
multimedia@freebsd.org

	Cheers,
	Amancio
Wilson Tam Siu Hom wrote:
> 
> I want to add a video grabber card to my lovely freebsd box in order to run
> vic in about 10+ frame per second in CIF resolution. I think quickcam
> is just not fast enough to handle the speed. I am considing some add-on
> PCI video grabber card base on SAA7146 chip from Philips...
> 
> Does anyone out there had tried that before? Are there any driver written
> for SAA7146 based card? Thanks for any comment.
>