From owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Mon Jan 11 01:34:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7B2A6B3F4 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:34:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from storm16@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x234.google.com (mail-io0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F94E1E9E for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:34:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from storm16@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x234.google.com with SMTP id 1so288278653ion.1 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:34:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Ru7kBQMeEB+nKaDg2GY75Rm9mxsNUmhQokqYi8oboT4=; b=e2wYJzXuOZ+OCpyxIdigGxeaene8ro7KDbeS573C6pf0Kfdzgs5Cqllunvvxm6bsJZ ql4DUWDkyaf++SXHRlz20Ef4KY4dXxOdpssTXXQXBkdogd2goDtKs3Y1pYOxl7UmUoQx mUx6/PoZx5u05U6YhuR4cf6fYrUZ29D9ZCcDXtNl71ZiZkmsLU0Rfc+oiX/6UmVFBAgm XucYqg+ZFDflIAfnM6DOTPsewnCwdraY150Tdi7vbcSfyXcMxxdvMlFIc6MrXCQcwcC3 wpCRmMXTJQ903vEpOiAkWpPYoAIzccf6MVFQx2+7wzvj+BZDr8T6kGsFeal5PlFAwFdf gUlQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.2.65 with SMTP id 62mr92540676ioc.78.1452476083899; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:34:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.2.227 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:34:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:34:43 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Hauppague card with free (or pc) bsd From: Brad Alexander To: =?UTF-8?Q?Bernhard_Fr=C3=B6hlich?= Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:34:44 -0000 Thanks for your response, Bernhard, So what would you sugest for an older pci card? All she really needs is channel 3 since all of channels are handled by the cable box. I have installed fxtv, but haven't had any luck with it as yet. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Bernhard Fr=C3=B6hlich wrote: > > Am 10.01.2016 6:52 nachm. schrieb "Brad Alexander" : > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to the list and new to BSD, having come over from Linux. I just > > converted my wife's machine over to pcbsd, which is a spork of freebsd. > Her > > machine has a Hauppague card plugged into the cable box, so I have the > > system loading the bktr driver. According to dmesg: > > > > bktr_mem: memory holder loaded > > bktr0: mem 0xeb000000-0xeb000fff irq 19 at device 1.0 o= n > > pci5 > > bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > bktr0: Hauppauge Model 44801 D110 > > bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner. > > > > What app do I set her up with to watch live TV? Is there a HOWTO on doi= ng > > this? On Linux, I was using tvtime, but that was a little long in the > > tooth, the last update was in 2005, plus the FAQ states: > > 7. Does tvtime support FreeBSD or NetBSD? > > > > Currently, tvtime will not work on BSD-based systems, but the code to g= et > > it to work should not be too difficult. > > > > There is a driver for bt848 and bt878-based cards under BSD called > > *bsdbt848*. The API for this driver is different from Linux's video4lin= ux > > that tvtime was written for, so the first job would be to do the input > code > > in tvtime to handle this driver. See mplayer for > one > > example of some code that uses this driver. > > > > The only other Linux-specific feature that we use would be the /dev/rtc > > code to do high performance timing (I assume there is a BSD equivalent = of > > this). > > > > So I was planning on using Kodi and TVHeadend, but did not see TVHeaden= d > in > > the repos. So what is the best way to set this up and what end app can = i > > use to get TV in a windowed session on her desktop? > > multimedia/tvheadend is there but it only supports the v4l api like most > other ported applications. In FreeBSD we have v4l only for USB devices > provided by cuse4bsd/webcamd. > > So to go forward if you only need to display the raw stream then it's > possible to do that but if you want to use some shiny > tvheadend/mythtv/vdr/kodi/vlc/... then you'd better buy a USB device whic= h > is supported by webcamd. There are some wiki pages on wiki.FreeBSD.org > which can give you some overview about that. >