Video Capture Cards

[Andrew Edwards (Olympic Shaver Centre)]

Thanks Adrian,

I suppose I could throw more than one card in, it's just finding some and
knowing once the brooktree chipset supercedes there may be no future
development in this area to support newer chips. I wish I was more skilled
in c to port some linux code over.

With regard to the card you highlighted, this uses a connexant 878 chipset,
do you know if this is related to the brooktree design or just a number
coincidence?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Gonzalez" <adrianbsd at globalpc.net>

> I have a couple of servers running FreeBSD with two or three bt8x8 based
> cards each  and they work great.
> The cards shouldn't be hard to find new.  A quick search found:
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-100-103
>
> While I don't own that particular card, it sure looks bt878-based, and $35
> isn't that bad considering it's new and it has a tuner.
>
> Depending on how many cameras you want to connect to it, you could use the
> Video In, hack the input used for the Tuner to provide another video In,
> and maybe plug in a third b/w camera to the Luma part of the s-video input
> (works great btw).
>
> I've noticed my cards in particular (848-based) take a few frames to
> stabilize when switching between inputs, so keep that in mind if you want
> to monitor them all in quick succesion.
>
> If you're interested, drop me a line and I'll give you the URLs for these
> cameras.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> -Adrian