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First post, by Gahhhrrrlic

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I came across a Canadian-built oddity - a Matrox Meteor_Pro 690-01, which is identified as a "frame grabber", which I assume means it's used for video capture. As yet I can't find the drivers for it but I'm still looking. It's got VGA, S-VIDEO and COMPOSITE on the back so a nice selection to pick from and appears to have some bonafide chips on it from IBM, LSI and Phillips. If anyone knows any more, it'd be interesting to have this product's data on file.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Gahhhrrrlic

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derSammler wrote:

That card is old, very old. It's from 1996 and wasn't a consumer product.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970811051536/ht … web/meteorm.htm

Unless you want to mess with the MIL C library, that thing is of no use.

That makes sense since I pulled it from an old work machine. I don't see any drivers but the page you linked does have 3 utilities which appear to make basic use of the card for image/video capture. I wonder if I can just install those 3 packages and they will work with the card...

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Reply 4 of 4, by elianda

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Actually if you go to the Matrox site, they still have information available for the Meteor: https://www.matrox.com/imaging/en/support/leg … chButton=Search

I also have a TWAIN driver for the Meteor2 in my archive on retronn.de here ftp://retronn.de/driver/Matrox/TWAIN/
I am not sure if it works with your card though.

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