From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 10:40:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5033116A41F for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:40:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3620243D55 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:40:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 28991 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2005 10:40:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 7 Dec 2005 10:40:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 5319 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2005 10:40:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Dec 2005 10:40:23 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221DBB847; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:40:22 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:40:18 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Jacob Meuser Message-ID: <20051207124018.0c0b9359@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20051207051226.GI8139@puff.jakemsr.gom> References: <20051206154440.61804.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20051207051226.GI8139@puff.jakemsr.gom> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: bsdav status on FreeBSD (was: Re: Buying a TV Capture card (pinnacle, hauppauge: wincast, pvr, etc)) 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: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:40:29 -0000 On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:12:26 -0800 Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:44:18PM -0200, Mario Sergio Fujikawa > Ferreira wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am considering acquiring a tv capture card in order to > > build a personal PVR system. Besides helping me test the video > > capture support of some ports I maintain. [ ... ] > IMO, mplayer/mencoder should not be used to judge image quality > or performance of bktr(4). I get stutter from those programs that I > don't get from other programs. and they do some video processing > instead of direct display. > > IMO, and I'm probably biased on this, bktrplay from bsdav is > a really good program for testing quality of bktr cards. it's > simple and straight forward. no filtering and it does not try to > force the frame rate (which is AFAICT where the stutter in > mplayer/mencoder comes from) but uses the signals from bktr(4) > to refresh the frames. also, run it with -vvv from a console > and you will get useful diagnostics (actual frame rate). I'm sorry, I didn't have time to import the OpenBSD changes in bktr [1] code (not resetting the channel when accessing bktr), hence the port is still marked broken. [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/bktr/bktr_core.c.diff?r1=1.15&r2=1.16 -- IOnut - Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit