[MacDV] TV card question

[Erica Sadun]

At 1:26 AM -0400 9/13/03, Dr. M. Burek wrote:
>I have a iXMicro TV card coming to the house in the next few days. 
>I've been looking for a PCI card that I could use in a Mac that I 
>could afford for a while, now. I am happy enough with just a TV 
>card, but I'd like to know if this card can also be used for video 
>capture from an analog source. Sorry, I don't know right now what 
>model he's sending me, but I do know it has a Brooktree bt848 
>chipset in it. Apparently, it was quite popular a couple years ago 
>(pre - OS X), so there are quite a few around still being used. The 
>guy I am getting it from never used it, so he didn't know anything 
>about it or what it could do - otherwise I would not ask the list...
>
>I did notice a site on SourceForge with a group that is/was 
>developing OS X drivers for bt848 based cards. Are these worth the 
>download? Anyone have any experience with them? Anything special I 
>need to do to use them?
>
>Thanks in advance to the list for any useful info. If it is 
>necessary, when I get the card in the next few days I'll look at it 
>and try to get it's particulars, to help y'all help me a little 
>better.
>
>Michael

My ixTV card died earlier this year. It gave me many years of OS 9
use. I find that I can do the same stuff in OS X without a special
card (using a firewire converter box) so I don't miss it.

-- Erica