From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 23 01:35:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA26010 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 01:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from mailhub (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA26005 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 01:35:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fj@schizo.dk.tfs.com) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com by mailhub (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id BAA04183; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 01:28:08 -0800 Received: (from fj@localhost) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) id KAA23421; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:34:21 +0100 (MET) From: Flemming Jacobsen Message-Id: <199712230934.KAA23421@schizo.dk.tfs.com> Subject: Re: TV tuner cards In-Reply-To: from Greg Pavelcak at "Dec 22, 97 01:07:17 pm" To: gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu (Greg Pavelcak) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:34:21 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > I looked at fxtv in the ports, did some web shopping and finally > decided to solicit some opinions from people with experience. Any > views about which TV-card to buy STB TV PCI or one of the Hauppage > cards. I've seen a little on this in the archives, but not much. Since nobody else have spoken, I'll share my personal experience. I own the Hauppage Win/TV with stereo, Text TV and radio (PAL version. Judging from their web page, it's the model 418). Once i managed to add support for this version of the card to the driver, it's been working flawlessly. I have no experiences with other cards, but I can only recommend this one. Having the radio present is very nice. Before you shop you'll want to make sure that your graphics card support PCI-PCI transfers to it's memory (I think it's called DirectDraw support). If you are interested in TV cards, you will want to listen in on the freebsd-multimedia mailinglist. Merry Christmas Everybody Flemming -- Flemming Jacobsen It'll probably say something like "Does not TRW Financial Systems, Denmark compute" or "Inoperative parameters". That's Email: fj@tfs.com what it says when it doesn't know and doesn't Phone: +45 4330 4050 want to admit it. -- Terry Pratchett: Wings