Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:08:14 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com>, Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD video recorder (was: FreeBSD as a HTPC!) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0811301408y501a9cd0kb9190f56d0e10d12@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081130195816.GB34842@funkthat.com> References: <20081129030722.GD26930@dereel.lemis.com> <200811290710.HAA09724@sopwith.solgatos.com> <1d3ed48c0811282346p1c7b6c52q714d5b6ccd0941ce@mail.gmail.com> <20081130195816.GB34842@funkthat.com>
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:58 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > Kevin Downey wrote this message on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 23:46 -0800: >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote: >> >> I started on this track a while back, but the main problem I've had is >> >> that FreeBSD doesn't support any digital tuners. Here in Australia we >> >> have digital TV with resolutions of up to 720p (1280x720 >> >> non-interlaced) or 1080i (1920x1080 interlaced). 720p is better. >> > >> > Well... 720p is better in some ways, 1080i is better in others. >> > But for tuner support what matters is ATSC or DVB-T. >> > >> >> So what I do is to copy the saved MPEG files to the FreeBSD machine >> >> and use mplayer, along with a series of scripts, to play it. I'm >> >> using a DVICO remote control (the one that came with the tuner), and >> >> not coincidentally this is one of the few TV remote controls which >> >> FreeBSD supports. >> > >> > There is a FreeBSD driver for the DViCO FusionHDTV5 if that's the tuner >> > you have. I don't know if it supports DVB-T though... >> > >> > And Jason has written a driver that supports several cx88 based cards. >> > And there is the HDHomeRun that just needs Ethernet. >> > >> > So you can use FreeBSD for recording, if you have the right tuner. >> > Support for additional tuners would of course be welcome. >> >> does anyone know how the heck you build the driver for the divco >> fusion? as far as I can tell it is a bunch of files in p4, which means >> it is a huge pain to get them. I think I did manage to build the >> kernel module but it made my amd64 machine kernel panic. >> >> I sent an email to JohnMarkGurney with some questions, but I never got a reply. > > Sorry, been a bit lax on reading email recently. I've updated the > wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/HDTV/DViCOFusionHDTV5Lite to contain > a bit more, and put a tarball of the perforce code up to make it easier > to fetch. > > It was last compiled w/ a -current of early 2007, but there shouldn't > be any significant changes causing problems. If there are, let me know. > >> so saying the card is supported maybe a stretch. > > I am getting close to not using mine anymore. Now w/ the HDHomeRun > working so well, and about the same price per tuner as a Lite, it's hard > to support such a crappy chip as the bt878. Plus, the people at > SiliconDust are interested in supporting their product on other platforms, > like FreeBSD, unlike DViCO.. > > Even w/ only two tuners and an ethernet card on the PCI bus doing a > single capture and sending out that stream via the ethernet card (yes, > only 5 MB/s on the PCI bus), I get fifo overruns. It could be my > chipset or an agressive em card, but I switched to using a PCI-e NIC > and that solved it, but with such a sensitive card, it's hard to > continue support. > > Though I will admit that I do ocassionally have udp socket buffer > overruns w/ the HDHomeRun, it works great, about to get a second to > replace the two Lite's in my machine... > > I'll still provide some basic support, but don't expect to much... > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 > > "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." > holy christ, it works! thanks a bunch! (wish I had a homerun, but the fusions was less then $40 on ebay) -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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