Subject: Re: SunVideo board
To: Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/06/2000 14:01:31
Craig Dewick wrote:
> 
> In <199912200026.TAA04412@bcr4.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes:
> 
> >  I just dug up what I believe is a SunVideo board: two RCAs, one S-Video
> >connector, and the "usual' Phillips video IC.
> 
> There are two types of board like that - one is the VideoPix (Sun part #
> 501-1706) which Sun stopped supporting ages ago,

  Looks like that's what I have (it says 270-1706-05 on the bottom).  Doesn't
sound promising for getting it to do much useful, without serious reverse-
engineering.
  Is it even worth it?  What can VideoPix do; video-in-a-window?  Video
output?  Simple frame-grabbing?

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