From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 14:34:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6D816A400 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:34:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FFC13C428 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so616322ana for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:34:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DaNzbb13OpXXE82SV3Y1AtpXNmBJRXRIu2ttn7k8ExREXZjaonr0VZYlXzqU+dWtLQySwdl1QB8lHztLyRd6UFIYbZJUgw+8VMJE5WSSLJ0XY/ao/gy7F+XpAAP9MxhnaDazeafO1qRyo8+lwtdYXDvKfpCk/vZexqBuYR5LNK4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pseuce871NVlmHdRHDT0SWWpvUGL/Dv7/5mG22zxFFRDEhpVWkCtnEuFOynswL+9nTP8ky+zmRukiR0+pH+ad1BM1gbYFakeypJoDPU1/UPp+ThSr2Y/oSyxw355YfpuHTfKTS3E91FdOqZfX9wmd07YM4yPjfC26LFJEj5lrHc= Received: by 10.114.181.1 with SMTP id d1mr327504waf.1172414096033; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:34:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.199.18 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:34:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:34:55 +0100 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: "Danny Pansters" In-Reply-To: <200702251450.11382.danny@ricin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20702241801i37b9e845m65e5e359980b4976@mail.gmail.com> <200702251450.11382.danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: brooktree 880: cx23880-19 TV chip 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: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:34:57 -0000 Danny, List, On 2/25/07, Danny Pansters 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