Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:46:58 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which of these HD TV tuners would be easier to get/write drivers for? Message-ID: <20061114194658.GW9291@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20611140557i41fa387ci8cb61147421b4565@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20611140557i41fa387ci8cb61147421b4565@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Stapleton wrote this message on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:57 -0500: > I'm looking at setting up a multimedia center PC, and I'd like to base > it off of BSD, but the problem is that TV Tuners are hard to find with > drivers, and HD Tuners even worse. > > Anyone know which of these would be easier to write drivers for? One > looks to be Phillips, one looks to be Connexant (examing the windows > driver files), dunno about the rest > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815100140 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815325001 Not sure about these, but if you get a 5th gen LG tuner package (LG H062F) w/ a Bt878 chip, you most likely can use the bktrau driver and capture program I've writen... > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815326001 (If I > could get a low profile bracket for this, I'd prefer that option) This doesn't look like an HDTV card... If you want a low profile HDTV card, the DViCO FusionHDTV5 Lite (not the RT version) comes w/ a low profile bracket and works w/ the bktrau driver... > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116310 > (preferrably not, bad experiences with ATI) Don't even attempt.. I have one, and ATI doesn't even respond.. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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