Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:34:55 +0100 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: brooktree 880: cx23880-19 TV chip Message-ID: <c39ec84c0702250634w510e58cateeea8095aa0baf32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200702251450.11382.danny@ricin.com> References: <80f4f2b20702241801i37b9e845m65e5e359980b4976@mail.gmail.com> <200702251450.11382.danny@ricin.com>
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Danny, List, On 2/25/07, Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> wrote: > On Sunday 25 February 2007 03:01, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I ready that hauppauge was the best bet for a TV Tuner that would work > > in BSD. So I got a WinTV-Radio. Sadly you can't see the chip they use > > in the tuner before you buy. The website showed most of the chips were > > This the capture chip. The tuner is a different thing. And both need to be > supported. For example many Leadtek TV cards have a bt878 capture chip but > they have an unsupported (on freeBSD) Samsung tuner. > > For bktr analog TV I'd recommend a nice little cheap Miro card, Hauppauge is > often rather shoddy hardware IMHO (messy soldering, cards that need to be > bend a bit to fit in the slot and PC case causing mechanical strain, those > kind of things). At least the older WinTV cards were. > > > 848 and 878, so I figured that I would be safe, and I would take the > > risk of getting a 881, and I've seen hints that one could get working. > > > > I got the 880 which isn't even listed. > > AFAIK this is another type of capture chip, it may be supported by the pvrxxx > port that people have been discussing lately, since it's called CXabcd (CX= > conexant the newer name for brooktree, it seems to refer to a newer line of > capture chips). Ask usleepless. I don't have this hardware and if I > understand correctly it uses a binary blob which to me is a turn-off. actually, when searching for this on google, Greg (Lehey) turns up. he should know a thing or two about this chip. regards, usleep
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