Georgios, First of all, you should know what is the grabbing chip on the board and if the chip is one of the Bt848/849/878/879. If it is not, you can not use V4L2/bttv to drive the board and you need to find other driver for your development. For example, if you decide to use Omnimedia and suppose it uses different grabbing chip, you should contact Omnimedia directly to asking the Linux driver. Secendly, if you want to do more investigation, you should find a Bt848/849/878/879 based frame grabbing board like Sensoray Model 611/311 (http://www.sensoray.com/html/frame_grabbers.htm) so that you can use V4L/bttv linux driver. Visit http://www.metzlerbros.org/bttv.html and http://bytesex.org/bttv/, you will get more detailed info. Good luck with your development. Charlie X. Liu Sensoray Company 7337 SW Tech Center Dr. Tigard, OR 97223, USA (503) 684-8073 -----Original Message----- From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Georgios Kapetanakis Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:45 AM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: About a frame grabber Dear all, Although experienced in other fields, I have worked with frame grabbers only during the past month, because of my work. I worked with Data Translation's DT3131 and DT3120 frame grabbers (Windoze-only, not my choice), both of which have a large number of errors. The department is now prepared to invest a little money ($500 ~= £320 ~= 508 E) on buying a new frame grabber that is supported by Linux (hurrah!) and have asked me to investigate. After some searching and also from various recommendations, I have concluded that the Omnimedia Sequence P1S-P (http://www.omt.com) frame grabber, often referred to as "Matrox Meteor-I clone", would be the best in my case. My questions to all of you are the following. Can I use this frame grabber with V4L2? Do I need drivers? Is anyone familiar with this specific frame grabber? I apologise for asking such general questions, but I am new in this field and any help will be much appreciated. Thank you all. -- Georgios Kapetanakis Research Associate Department of Computer Science University of York, UK
