Mark Tinguely
1995-Oct-10 09:09 UTC
Media Vision ProMovieStudio Capture Card Driver Announcement
************* Announcing the Media Vision ProMovie Studio Video Capture Driver. ************* The ProMovieStudio is an older capture card for ISA bus computers. The ProMovieStudio is no longer being sold, but it is a very popular card. The mvpms driver delivers video frames in YUV (default) and 16 bit RGB formats. The mvpms driver is mostly for use with the MBONE conferencing tool "nv", though using it to capture still photos is still possible. nv's frame speed varied from 1 fps in 320x240 to 7 fps at 160x120 on a 16 MHz 386, to 10 fps in 320x240 to 20 fps at 160x120 on a 90 MHz Pentium computer. The mvpms driver kit can be found at: ftp://joy.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/pub/mvpms-1.0.tgz Warning: I was unable to get good looking colors from the ProMovieStudio card that I borrowed to write this driver. You may be able to tweak the chromance and hue to get better colors than I did. I chose to use the card in monochrome mode to increase the speed MBONE tool "nv".