From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 4 19:09:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10E6E7C3 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (mail-ob0-f178.google.com [209.85.214.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4C311E1D for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wn1so9903446obc.23 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:09:30 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8FTB5fIrzHiE4Q7Am7gu1KjZ21HRxyyRm0QB9UshD8w=; b=CIBtmQh/1j3X/ioGybS2e+6VbqX7Yj21GSKbI0lyax/C9jLjV+5Hdjn3WB4emKoI84 VB0b69UDcpuqomHv2VPMqYPpak4Lc0eQjT7tnK3VSIvVllxXkIAER1I09nAshkkth/jn O1QQirQxMJg0isEoSF+6e413aCxju5uaWXwqSHsbUoixZYxFlK45Hc/VGI92dYKHWUVu NTOSk/gFaQ8AVMeFbIEzLUW6tPD46+w4Y2V/BI1fi4RKmCP1NxuPzMwrKVQ3Eg/61OdD rTAmk+/CDVZ0+J2KI/mlltAUBn5HDrVo7I3Nz2ZsC7M3jmgQLhlwacCxOdmx+i7af5hz fvhg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkaqlq6u30gNTMMQg9BnnuX3MK4P6YeJTygs9fhweE/72Pta/X+Dke7+DAhFI7DQFgG1nWV MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.18.9 with SMTP id s9mr37474601obd.15.1391540655602; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.229.229 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:04:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:04:15 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: hdhomerun & dvr - prefer tvheadend From: Bryce Edwards To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: "freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:09:37 -0000 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich wrote= : > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Bryce Edwards > > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 10 and need to setup a DVR (timeshift capability a > > big plus). Tvheadend would be my preference, but I'll take anything > > that Just Works(TM). I got a hdhomerun as the ATSC tuner (dual > > actually) so that drivers were not a problem but I see that the > > approach tvheadend takes for that tuner is linux specific with the DVB > > kernel driver approach. Please give me suggestions to get this up & > > running or point me to good alternatives. > > Sorry, but there is no way to get that setup running on FreeBSD. As you > have already seen the hdhomerun "wrapper" that is used on linux is a > kernel module that doesn't work on FreeBSD and tvheadend itself does > not support hdhomerun yet. > > The closes we could get is to ask Hans Petter Selasky if he sees a > chance to add the hdhomerun module to webcamd/cuse4bsd and how > much work it would be. (I've CC'd him already) > > -- > Bernhard Froehlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ > What about other DVR software options? FreeBSD and hdhomerun support are my ideal requirements. I'll also play with running linux under virtualbox but was hoping to avoid that and use a jail. It's unfortunate that they took an 'integrated' approach on a network based tuner but I understand using a consistent implementation for all tuners.