This is (or at least WAS) not the case. Back in the days of the LinuxPPC distro (yes - that far back), with a lot of help from Takashi Oe initially, and then Anthony Sexton and Gerd Knorr afterwards, we got xawtv working with the bttv driver on my personal 7500 at that time, with a 2.2.6 kernel (~ 4 years ago - early 1999).
The bttv driver is for the Brooktree series of digitizers, which was used on the ixMicro TV cards, some Hauppauge TV cards (don't have details about those though), and the video in/out on the 7*00/8*00 Power MacIntosh series. Michel Lanners initially wrote a driver called 'planb' for the PowerMac hardware, but I am not sure if it's functionality has been merged with the kernel's bttv driver. If you want more info, wander over to lists.linuxppc.org, and run a search for bttv. The info is pretty dated as it was for an early 2.2 kernel, and I am not sure how much of the extraneous information (like the module configuration, etc) is still relevant. If you have a bttv compatible card, I would say to drop it in your system, compile your kernel with "video4linux" support, and play with that driver and xawtv. I find it really hard to believe that in 4 years, we've lost that level of compatibility and functionality... I still have my ixMicro card, but I don't have my own desktop at home to play with. cheers vinai On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, J Q Private wrote: > Nick, > I am interested in the same exact thing. I e-mailed Vassili, um, > Leo-something and he said any powerpc video capture things would > definitely be USB based, even if he didn't help any more than that. > > If you learn anything more off-list, please CC: me! > > I think I'm going to end up getting a x86 capture card and leave > it another box, but that one is much weaker (128mb and 533mhz) so I am > not looking forward to it.
