Alan, As I've had experience with Brooktree myself (though in Windoze) using two Data Translation (http://www.datx.com) frame grabbers, DT3131 and DT3120, I can only say that I had an enormous amount of problems. I can hear you say "yeah, but it's windoze" and I would have to agree. However, all this has indeed put me off trying Brooktree again. Of course, it was (and still is!) the drivers' fault that I can't do anything with those frame grabbers, not the chipset itself. It has, however, shattered my trust to Brooktree and DT mainly. My initial recommendation to my department was the Matrox Meteor II, but they say they can't afford such an expensive board, that's why I proposed the Meteor clone for half the price. Although Brooktree can be cheaper, isn't it true sometimes that "you get what you pay for"? I mean, we got DT boards first because of the price (very cheap), and two months down the road, we still(!) can't do any work! Thank you for all your replies, they are most appreciated! -- Georgios Kapetanakis Department of Computer Science University of York ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan McIvor" <alan.mcivor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: About a frame grabber > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:37:06 +0100 > "Georgios Kapetanakis" <georgios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've also checked what Charlie told me, but since I have excellent > > recommendations for the Omnimedia P1S, I'm reluctant to look for something > > else. And it's a good guarantee to have a Meteor (even a cloned one). > > > > I have used both BT878 based cards and the Omnimedia P1S extensively > and can say from experience that BT878 based framegrabbers are far > better than the Omnimedia P1S in nearly every way. Price in > particular: a framegrabber containing just a BT878 (that is, with no > sound support) will be only 1/10th the cost of a Omnimedia P1S. > > Alan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
