Look into the Mbone stuff on the internet. Do a web search of "Mbone"
and you'll find references to software written for the Intel Smart Video
Recorder III. I would LOVE to have one too but my computer is just a
486sx with a 163 Mb hard drive. It would fill up too fast and I can't
have another hard drive yet.
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:13:57 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> I have a feeling this message got swallowed up before it made it to
>> the list. My apologies if you are reading this for the second time.
>> ------
>> I'm still not quite sure how I pulled this off, but I managed to
>> convince Intel to give me an Intel Smart Video Recorder III, a PnP
>> card that digitises and compresses video input on the fly. Thanks,
>> Andy!
>>
>> It's pretty neat. I installed it under Windoze and had a lot of fun
>> filling up the disk with several hundred MBs of video of my daughter
>> (time for a new hard disk)!
>>
>> The question is, of course, how would I go about getting this to run
>> under Linux? I have checked the Hardware HOWTO (the card is not
>listed
>> -- nor anything else that looks like an ancestor or sibling to a
>> product of a model III).
>>
>> I suppose I am looking for advice in writing a block device driver
>for
>> this card. How would I set about such a task? What information do I
>> need? What can I read online? What existing source code could I use
>as
>> a model? Is C enough or will I have to relearn my assembler skills?
>>
>> Thanks for the input,
>> David
>> --
>> David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
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