Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:59:44 +0000 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kbtv2 beta2 uploaded Message-ID: <200802230159.BAA24291@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:56:29 %2B0100." <200802230156.29551.danny@ricin.com>
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> > > 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. > 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. No, I mean the reception performance, not mpeg features. The "big" metal cans supposedly have better RF filtering. Keeping the undesired frequencies out is important.
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