Hello,
I have got to the same idea today and -- what a luck -- this topic is
already dscussed on FreeBSD list! How fast should be the server to be able
to perform this task? For instance, would PII/400MHz/128Mb be enough? Do
different cards (meteor/bktr) consume CPU power differenly, or about
What is the video resolution which consumes almost 100Mbps?
I have no answer about the card, but full digital television, without
compression, needs 36 Mbps according to some experiements run by
Japanses.
Olivier
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How fast should be the server to be able
to perform this task? For instance, would PII/400MHz/128Mb be enough?
depends on the quality of the output and if this a dedicated machine
with idle cycles. the multicast vic application does not take to
big of a machine Pentium I/100. Realtime MPEG2
Mark,
Is it possible to record video under FreeBSD? Which card should I buy for
that? Is multicasting can be done using combination of available software,
or some programming required?
For serious digital recording, I would point you towards hardware
MPEG2 compression. FreeBSD does
For which device(s) does it have a non-free driver? Or hardware MPEG2
devices are not supported by FreeBSD at all?
I am not aware of any MPEG2 hardware capture cards supported under FreeBSD
at this time. The MPEG2 chipsets are finally relatively inexpensive. There
are several drivers for
only the original Matrox Meteor is supported, and it cannot run
on modern PCI buses without locking up.
I am sorry to say, but I have been using a cheap card build on
brooktree chip and it is working fine (at least for still captudes)
Oliier
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Ok, I'm not sure if this will work (or if it does, how well), but I'm
curious to see what happens.
I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by
FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my
headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached
I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by
FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my
headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached to this
server via a 100Mbps switched ethernet LAN. Currently, I am using KDE as
my desktop
If i understand what you want to do, i have something similar setup. i
stuck my tv card [device bktr] in my headless server. Installed X on
the server, along with xawtv and fxtv. i then ssh -X into the server
from a client running X, i then execute the command for one of the tv
viewing apps
