TV Capture in QNX??

Does anybody know if there is a driver to use TV Capture Cards such as
Avermedia TV Capture??


Pablo Espada Bueno
e-mail: esbupa@apdo.com
peb_varios@wanadoo.es

Pablo Espada <peb_varios@wanadoo.es> wrote:

Does anybody know if there is a driver to use TV Capture Cards such as
Avermedia TV Capture??

Not yet.

We hope to support bt878 capture chips (among others) in the near
future. We’ve been working with Hauppauge WinTV boards. I ought
to order some Avermedia boards to test on, it shouldn’t be too
much trouble to make them work.

Does every TV capture also have output?

Are there only a few ouput chips?

will the capture and out parts be modular, so any
non-capture cards that have output, will be able to
output (I have a Quantum Obsidian X-24 Voodoo2
It has S-video and Composite out.)


I saw Voodoo 3 support? (3D, MESA, Glide)
But that is 2D+3D, will you support 3D only, OR
post V3 source with Graphics DDK so we can
mangle out 3D part only ??? (of which MESA & Glide
is open source anyway - just need to see how you
do it for Neutrino / QNX 6 / photon)


Pablo Espada <peb_varios@wanadoo.es> wrote:

Does anybody know if there is a driver to use TV Capture Cards such as
Avermedia TV Capture??

Not yet.

We hope to support bt878 capture chips (among others) in the near
future. We’ve been working with Hauppauge WinTV boards. I ought
to order some Avermedia boards to test on, it shouldn’t be too
much trouble to make them work.

Michael J. Ferrador <n2kra@orn.com> wrote:

Does every TV capture also have output?

Are there only a few ouput chips?

will the capture and out parts be modular, so any
non-capture cards that have output, will be able to
output (I have a Quantum Obsidian X-24 Voodoo2
It has S-video and Composite out.)

Video capture and TV output are two indepentant entities.
A video device may have hardware for TV capture, TV output,
or both, or neither. We may provide support for either, both,
or neither of these features, for any given device.

I saw Voodoo 3 support? (3D, MESA, Glide)
But that is 2D+3D, will you support 3D only, OR
post V3 source with Graphics DDK so we can
mangle out 3D part only ??? (of which MESA & Glide
is open source anyway - just need to see how you
do it for Neutrino / QNX 6 / photon)

The driver for the VooDoo 3 will be one of the sample
drivers provided in the Graphics DDK. This example driver will
have 2d support. The upcoming version of the DDK does not define
a 3D API. This will be added later.

For now, we use Glide to drive the 3d hardware on the VooDoo chips.
Our glide support is implemented independantly of the Photon
graphics driver framework, and thus is separate from the 2d
driver (which is called “devg-banshee.so”).

Pablo Espada <> peb_varios@wanadoo.es> > wrote:
Does anybody know if there is a driver to use TV Capture Cards such as
Avermedia TV Capture??

Not yet.

We hope to support bt878 capture chips (among others) in the near
future. We’ve been working with Hauppauge WinTV boards. I ought
to order some Avermedia boards to test on, it shouldn’t be too
much trouble to make them work.

More technical Video Card Driver discussion
should go where? to qdn.public.qnxrtp.photon? .dev?

Since Voodoo2 is 3D only (until someone unlocks its limited 2D)

  • just need a 3D stub to turn control over to Glide/Mesa?

David Donohoe <ddonohoe@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:8vbq0c$qdu$1@nntp.qnx.com

Michael J. Ferrador <> n2kra@orn.com> > wrote:

I saw Voodoo 3 support? (3D, MESA, Glide)
But that is 2D+3D, will you support 3D only, OR
post V3 source with Graphics DDK so we can
mangle out 3D part only ??? (of which MESA & Glide
is open source anyway - just need to see how you
do it for Neutrino / QNX 6 / photon)

yep, it says glide “takes over”, so I will need pseudo multi-head support?
devg-svga (Trident) + devg-v2 - does this need a Hydra.ms from QNX4 port?

The driver for the VooDoo 3 will be one of the sample
drivers provided in the Graphics DDK. This example driver will
have 2d support. The upcoming version of the DDK does not define
a 3D API. This will be added later.

will be getting a 2nd monitor to make this easier

For now, we use Glide to drive the 3d hardware on the VooDoo chips.
Our glide support is implemented independantly of the Photon
graphics driver framework, and thus is separate from the 2d
driver (which is called “devg-banshee.so”).

I only just saw Beta repository (Launch → Software → Download from QNX)
rather then Shelf → Package Manager → WWW QNX repository