From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 14:19:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77843408 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe01.c2i.net [212.247.154.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3F4964 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:19:33 +0000 (UTC) X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED Received: from [176.74.213.204] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO laptop015.hselasky.homeunix.org) by mailfe01.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 377116802; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:19:25 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: receiving aerial digital TV Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:20:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-STABLE; KDE/4.8.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: ?p&W)c(+80hU; '{.$5K+zq{oC6y| /D'an*6mw>j'f:eBsex\Gi, Cc: Wojciech Puchar X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:19:34 -0000 On Friday 01 February 2013 13:46:59 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i am out of current knowledge about common TV for about 10 years. > > Currently in Poland there is aerial TV broadcasted in DVB-T standard. > There are TVs with builtin decoder/demodulator or separate > decoders/demodulator with HDMI output. > > But how about just receiving demodulated data and letting mplayer play it, > and - most importantly - recording it directly. I know there are USB > receivers on market. > > Are such devices supported under FreeBSD? if so - what driver, what > chipset to look when buying such a thing? any other recommendation. > > With analog TV broadcast there were PCI cards with brooktree chipset that > worked with FreeBSD. > /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd /usr/ports/multimedia/cx88 --HPS