The "PMS-grabber" package, Vers 2.0, has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu under /pub/Linux/Incoming. It will probably be moved to /pub/Linux/apps/video (c) Wolfgang Koehler, wolf@first.gmd.de, Feb. 1995 The "GNU Public Lincense" policy applies to all programs of this package Purpose ======= This package was developed to make use of the PC frame grabber card "Pro MovieStudio" (PMS) by MediaVision under Linux. Main features of the programs ================================ * captures frames of the "Pro MovieStudio" frame grabber card * runs under X-Window in a normal window with various setting options * online view or capturing of single frames * arbitrarily resizing of view window (via window manager) (up to ~ 500x500) * up to 256 (or 65536 on some servers) colors on display * frame grabbing in rgb555/565-mode (32768 or 65536 colors) * computing of optimal color palettes from a given image * popup menu for all option settings of the PMS-card * popup menu for viewing and editing the registers (only for experiments) * simple image analyzing tools (with mouse cursor in view window) * save and load functions for ximages, captures and palettes * comes together with a generally useful X-window package * a standalone program for displaying saved images that runs without PMS-card on any computer with X-window New features since version 1.0 ============================== - interrupt driver included (not needed) - fast shared memmory extension enables quite high frame rates (if XServer has it installed), only with 16bpp - 16 bpp True-Color-mode (if your XServer enables it) - standard ppm formatted image output (for use with xv eg.) - compiles with gcc2.6.3 To install the package ====================== 1. gtar -xvzf PMS-grabber.2.0.tgz 2. Please follow the instructions in INSTALL.txt please read the file README.txt for further infos ! LSM entry ========= Begin3 Title: PMS-grabber - frame grabber for the "Pro MovieStudio" card Version: 2.0 Entered-date: 20OCT95 Description: captures frames of the "Pro MovieStudio" frame grabber card runs under X-Window in a normal window with various options online view or capturing of single frames, window size up to 500x500, 256 or 65536 colors, uses SHM Keywords: PMS video card, online view, picture saving, video driver Author: wolf@first.gmd.de (Wolfgang Koehler) Maintained-by: wolf@first.gmd.de Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/video 106 kB PMS-grabber.2.0.tgz 2 kB PMS-grabber.2.0.lsm Alternate-site: Original-site: Platforms: Linux-PC Copying-policy: GPL End