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Announcing the Matrox Meteor Video Capture Driver.
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The Meteor is a reasonably priced capture card for PCI (*see warning below)
bus computers. The Meteor is sold directly from Matrox** at:
Canada and USA
514-685-2630 or 1-800-361-4903 (voice)
514-685-2853 (fax)
UK
0793.614.002 (voice)
0793.614.336 (fax)
Asia Pacific
852.877.5387 (voice)
852.556.9104 (fax)
France
(1) 45 60 62 00 (voice)
(1) 45 60 62 05 (fax)
** this information is provided for your general information.
we in no way represent the interest of Matrox.
The Meteor driver delivers video frames in YUV packed, YUV planer, 16 bit RGB,
and 24 bit RGB format.
The Meteor driver provides a traditional read(2) interface as well as
memory mapped access to data for single frame capture, continuous capture,
and synchronous ring buffer capture modes.
Using the DB9 interface, the Meteor driver can choose to capture a single
video signal from up to four video sources.
The Meteor driver also comes with a document of ioctl, a directory of
programming examples that create PPM files for each output format, and
source code and patches to run the nv conferencing program.
The Meteor driver kit can be found at:
ftp://joy.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/pub/matrox.tgz
ftp://ftp.cs.uwm.edu/pub/FreeBSD/meteor.1.0.tgz
It is also included in FreeBSD 2.2-current.
Authors: Jim Lowe (james@miller.cs.uwm.edu)
Mark Tinguely (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu)
* Warning: the Meteor does not work with all PCI chipsets. A MERCURY chipset
motherboard is almost certain to NOT work with the Meteor. A NEPTUNE chipset
motherboard with a PCI video card may hang with heavy Meteor use. So it is
wise to use a "SATURN" or "TRITON" chipset motherboard
and also limit the
number of PCI bus-mastering devices on that bus. We had difficulties getting
the Meteor capture card to work with systems that also use the NCR PCI SCSI
boards. It is also wise to have 16 or more Megabytes of RAM in the computer.
1.0 Aug 21, 1995:
Initial Release
