Re: BTTV and IxTV
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.
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