Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:55:55 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500 Message-ID: <20061012225555.GA62427@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <200610122104.VAA04643@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <20061012184756.GB56438@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <200610122104.VAA04643@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0100, Dieter wrote: > > > > That's my point-- there are few HD drivers around, compared to SD. > > If the tuner can output SD it can output HD. Perhaps you mean > digital vs. analog. How is that? NTSC SD = 640x480, HD = 1920x1080.. Certainly not every tuner which outputs SD can output HD. However I did mean digital, not analog. > Compare the number of digital tuners that Linux supports to the > number BSD supports. The penguins are getting them written somehow. More people, lots more people. > I haven't studied the HD5500 in detail, but the HD3000 has analog inputs > (s-video & composite, audio) so you can feed it from an analog camcorder > or whatever. Yes.. The HD5500 only has RF input (coaxal). > In addition to broadcast ATSC it also does cable QAM. If > the HD5500 doesn't do this, you could look for a HD3000 on ebay. I should look for an HD3000 on ebay because it has composite/audio in and the HD5500 doesn't. > I'd like to see some sort of device driver API so that the same driver could > work on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Plan9/Linux/... Good luck, and I really mean that. > > There are both tuners and output. > > Cool. Could you point me at the list of BSD supported ATSC tuners, and the > list of BSD supported video output devices with XvMC? man bktr; man meteor; more /usr/ports/multimedia/pvrXXX/pkg-descr Not sure of any others.. And I never said anything about XvMC support, but with mythtv you can use Xv output. -- Rick C. Petty
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