PMS-grabber : a package for the Pro MovieStudio frame grabber card

PMS-grabber : a package for the Pro MovieStudio frame grabber card

Post by Wolfgang Koehl » Mon, 05 Dec 1994 20:44:50



The PMS-grabber package has been uploaded to  sunsite.unc.edu
under /pub/Linux/incoming.

PMS-grabber package
===================


The "GNU Public Lincense" policy applies to all programs of this package

main features
=============
* 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 colors on display (the upper limit of X-window)
* frame grabbing in rgb555-mode (32768 colors) (24bit TrueColor also possible)
* 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)
* simple 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

Begin3
Title:          PMS-grabber
Version:        12/94
Entered-date:   12/94  
Description:    package for grabbing and displaying pictures or video
                sequences from a "Pro MovieStudio" frame grabber card,
                capability of saving and loading image files, computing
                optimized palettes, all controlled from a X-window interface
Keywords:       "Pro MovieStudio" frame grabber card, X-window,
                life video display, color palette, image processing


Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/incoming  
                92kB PMS-grabber.tgz
                1kB  PMS-grabber.readme
Alternate-site:
Original-site:  
Platform:      
Copying-policy: GPL
End

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PLEASE remember Keywords: and a short description of the software.

 
 
 

1. Announce: PMS-grabber.2.0 available

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


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
Version:        2.0
Entered-date:   10/95
Description:  
Keywords:      


Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming or /pub/Linux/apps/video
                106 kB PMS-grabber.2.0.tgz
                1 kB   PMS-grabber.2.0.lsm
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platform:
Copying-policy: GPL
End

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