Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:02:10 +1000 From: Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Formac TV Tuner In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hardware setup: Power Mac 7300 Sonnet G3 400 MHz w/ 1 MB L2 cache, 288 MB RAM (interleaved), IBM Ultrastar 9 GB SCSI drive, Apple ROM Quantum 2 GB SCSI, Yamaha SCSI CD-RW CRW4416SX (external), Formac ProTV II PCI, Apple 7300 video w/4 MB VRAM.
Michael,
Can't shed much light on kernel panic situation but what have you got driving the Formac TV card under OS X?
Thanks
Simon
I am using Formac's beta drivers for OS X, as well as Formac's TV Studio 3.0.2, also available and working for this card, with these drivers. To find the drivers, go to the Accelerate your Mac site, look under "video cards" and click on the "TV tuners" link. You'll find them there. They are not listed (that I can find, anyway) on Formac's site since they changed to forced registration to even access downloads or anything but their product catalog. If these drivers ever do get updated, I believe it will be very difficult to find out, unless it gets posted somewhere or Formac changes their website back to something more customer-friendly.
I have found though, that the beta Formac drivers work very well - very, very well. TV Studio seems the weak link, as it is an amazing resource hog, and not written very well, in my opinion. I would like to find a decent freeware capture app for OS X that's better, if anyone knows of one. I tried iTV and XTelevision with a previous TV card, and none of them worked at all. Since XTV is no longer updated (and was primarily written by the same guy who writes iTV) this doesn't surprise me.
As the kernel panics go, I highly doubt the Formac drivers are the culprit, as I don't even have them installed yet, since re-installing OS X 10.2.6. Unless the Mac is wondering what that hardware is and since there isn't a driver sitting there that works...
BTW: If there are any Formac owners out there that have registered for their website (which you must do now, just to get software updates), I encourage (and beg!) you to write to them demanding that they remove this registration requirement for their website, and bring back downloads and manuals and any other info they have for their slightly older products! Things they were making just last year are no longer supported on their website w/ any downloads! This is just a ploy to force people to buy their latest products to have any hope of support, regardless if their current product still works just fine, or not.
MB
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