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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:34:52 +0200
From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
To: Steve Friedrich <freeBSD@InsightBB.com>
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Subject: Re: Anybody have time to create a new port?
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On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:30:20AM -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote:
> I ran across a VERY interesting app while surfing the net.
> 
> mythTV is a Personal Video Recorder and much more.
> 
> If I had the experience of creating a port, a TV card, and a job (in this industry that won't hire me with 28 yrs experience, but clamors for H-1B visas), this is the app I'd like to port.
> 
> I've resisted TiVo and other such solutions because they all seem to depend on buying a service.  I don't want to get stuck like the DiVix buyers with stuff that is no longer supported and I don't want a 
> solution with a meter running.

not easiily done because mythtv heavily depends on v4l (or v4l2).
maybe ask on freebsd-multimedia about progress with this.

cheers, t.