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From: rusty@fe2o3.UUCP (Rusty Haddock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LIVE! digitizer
Message-ID: <209@fe2o3.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 22:08:35 GMT
References: <18622@gryphon.COM> <[24e38c6a:1063.1]un.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> <13156@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: rusty@fe2o3.UUCP (Rusty Haddock)
Organization: My lil' BSD machine at home
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In article <13156@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
   >+-- tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
   >|  [...] the Progressive
   >| Peripherials frameGrabber is (IMHO) the best one on the market. While a bit
   >| more expensive , the quality is well worth it!

AGREED!  And from what I hear the new software coming out (RSN) for the FG
is EXCELLENT!!!!!! 

   >Question:  Can it be controlled from user software like Live! can?  A^2
   >provided a shared library for getting at the Live! board.

PP supplies sample C code, fgtutorial.c, as well as specifying the Port
Control bits (uses the parallel port).  Admittedly, all you can do is select
resolutions, which color to download, switch where the display connects to
(Amiga or FG), kill the color, trigger the FG to digitize, and reset the FG
h/w.  Also, the samples show you how to upload the captured image and
download the control commands.  I believe there's more but it's not that much
more.  If you need more than you've probably got the wrong application for
the FG.

For you fellow FG owners:

    One thing that's helped me with the FG is a video amp to boost the output
of my TV/monitor, an old RCA ColorTrak 2000 (c. 1982).  A $20 adjustable
video amplifier from Rip Shack worked pretty good.  Results from a studio
quality color camera we had at Bell Labs worked pretty good too!  Flesh tones
were great!

		-Rusty-
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Rusty Haddock		o  {uunet,att,rutgers}!mimsy.umd.edu!fe2o3!rusty
Laurel, Maryland	o  "IBM sucks silicon!" -- PC Banana Jr, "Bloom County"