From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 00:57:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85B716A401 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:57:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8C113C43E for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:57:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.130.190] (port=57297 helo=smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSihc-0003vK-3L for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:57:20 +0100 Received: from cp1228410-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.217.164]:60728 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSihb-0008Gp-Go for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:57:20 +0100 Received: by desktop.homenet (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:56:29 +0100 From: "Danny Pansters" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:56:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802230046.AAA06421@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: <200802230046.AAA06421@sopwith.solgatos.com> X-Face: (Zs+'ncTcchkOX|~t6{?Iii=O!G#WEK!+OD0|-F=i%1pvP5V_Sz4PaJC8o)=?utf-8?q?MiSnH/JMJFy=0A=09oBN-My?=, v":S7, (=?utf-8?q?mmkPm=27U=7BMgT+eM=2EBd=5Cp/P!dr=5DhOTXqpse21O!=25Ct=60SE=2EOodq?= =?utf-8?q?=5Dry=5E=23kU=5E=0A=09-?=GT.[8D}i$6P>=" =?utf-8?q?=23=0A=09*J+4d=7E?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802230156.29551.danny@ricin.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Subject: Re: Kbtv2 beta2 uploaded X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:57:22 -0000 On Friday 22 February 2008 17:46:42 Dieter wrote: > > Your card seems to have a microtune tuner mt2050 which is not yet > > supported by the saa backend. I'm looking into it. Unfortunately it > > differs from the other generic tuner APIs for saa in that tuning and init > > are to be handled differently (mt2032 is supported by bktr, so I can peek > > there). THis is an important tuner to have support for though for several > > reasons: > > > > - it's on a chip, not in a large chunky metal enclosure > > I have read that the very small USB tuners don't perform as well as the > "large chunky metal enclosure", because some features were left out. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Well, they don't have an mpeg encoder chip, but neither do the old fashioned analog TV cards. Of course, supporting that A/V decoder is another matter. But so is supporting an onboard mpeg encoder. They seem to use empia chipsets almost exclusively, the variant without onboard MPEG encoder is called the "blackbird" design IIRC. Dan