The meteor is the first grabber card that had support in linux. It is using a Philips TDA7something chipset, not the bt8xx. My suse setup seems to have meteor support built in (but no V4L2). I'm using the WinTV card right now -- it works fine, costs a lot less than a meteor. For the meteor see http://home.att.net/~marksu/meteorman.html or http://www.k-team.com/software/linux.html I have investigated it once when I tried to adapt it for DOS, but never used it under linux. /\/\/\/*=Martin Charlie Liu wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
