From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 22:55:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org 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 B918C16A407 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (megan.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1576743D53 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:55:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 63501 invoked by uid 2001); 12 Oct 2006 22:55:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:55:55 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Dieter Message-ID: <20061012225555.GA62427@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20061012184756.GB56438@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <200610122104.VAA04643@sopwith.solgatos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610122104.VAA04643@sopwith.solgatos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:55:56 -0000 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