From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 10:46:22 2004 Return-Path: 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 BD0B916A4D0 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA3C43D48 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no (131.80-202-174.nextgentel.com [80.202.174.131]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id CFFC83EC6 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:46:26 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:44:20 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040419194420.00cde3ba.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20040419124740.GA22997@grint.int.nln.ru> References: <20040419124740.GA22997@grint.int.nln.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq;m"_0v;~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Philips 7134 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:46:22 -0000 On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:47:40 +0400 "Ruslan N. Gogunsci" wrote: > My choise is stop on tv-tuner based on Philips 7134. But > google says that FreeBSD dosn't support it. and i'm interesting > does FreeBSD plan support it? FreeBSD doesn't _plan_ anything (well, almost). Progress for FreeBSD is based on the interests and time for hundreds of developers, who give of their own time to work on things that they feel is needed. In short; if nobody is already writing a driver, and you are not taking on the task yourself, the tuner will never be supported. > I don't want reboot to Windows only for watching TV. The "easiest" choice then, is to get a TV tuner card with a supported chipset. However, this might not be an easy task at all, based on two things: 1) makers of TV tuner cards are notoriously bad at informing about what chipset a card uses (instead they tell you about the wonderful Windows software that you get :-/ ) 2) The BT8x8 chipsets are old, and being replaced with newer chipsets. The new chipsets doesn't (generally) work with the 'bktr' driver. Good luck! -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway