From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 00:33:57 2011 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 04968106564A for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:33:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from imr-da01.mx.aol.com (imr-da01.mx.aol.com [205.188.105.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B708FC16 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-ma02.mx.aol.com (imo-ma02.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.137]) by imr-da01.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p3L0NeOx005067; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:23:40 -0400 Received: from dieterbsd@engineer.com by imo-ma02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id n.10a9.b2a67 (43898) for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtprly-md03.mx.aol.com (smtprly-md03.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.156]) by cia-dc06.mx.aol.com (v129.10) with ESMTP id MAILCIADC063-d4384daf79041d6; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:23:37 -0400 Received: from web-mmc-m03 (web-mmc-m03.sim.aol.com [64.12.224.136]) by smtprly-md03.mx.aol.com (v129.10) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYMD037-d4384daf79041d6; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:23:32 -0400 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:23:32 -0400 X-AOL-IP: 67.206.164.79 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI MIME-Version: 1.0 From: dieterbsd@engineer.com X-MB-Message-Type: User Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: Mail.com Webmail 33540-STANDARD Received: from 67.206.164.79 by web-mmc-m03.sysops.aol.com (64.12.224.136) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:23:32 -0400 Message-Id: <8CDCDD17AD3289A-1A60-4F6B@web-mmc-m03.sysops.aol.com> X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: dieterbsd@engineer.com Subject: Re: Headless box with PVR-250 - ideas needed 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: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:33:57 -0000 > So I did my homework, at least I thought I did. I read the Wiki which > tells us PVR-x50 works with MythTV. I bought a PVR-250 for this very > purpose, to work with MythTV backend. I crawled in dusty attic > installing cables. I hacked the drivers to make them work with my=20 card. > All this was in vain, MythTV does not work with this card. > > Now I need some ideas, how could I at least watch TV in my desktop > using that card in headless box, buried in the closet? Divide problem into recording and playback. Have you found something that will talk to your tuner card and set the channel and record to a file on disk? Once you have that you can schedule recordings with at(1). Cron(1) can schedule regular every day/week shows. For playback on a headful computer, there is mplayer and similar. I assume both machines are on an Ethernet network. For playback on a TV, there are Ethernet-to-TV boxes. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=3D39 Some recent TVs have Ethernet and do DLNA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA If you want things like seek/fast-forward/freeze-frame/etc. do your homework, word is that many (perhaps all?) of these things fail badly on anything except plain playback. I have yet to read about one that does these things well. (If anyone knows of one, please let us know.) Some camcorders can do firewire-to-TV, and there are boxes that do firewire-to-TV.