Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:02:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: outbackdingo@gmail.com Cc: Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: how to turn my computer into a TV Message-ID: <201206171702.q5HH2qJY039490@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <CAKYr3zwQqYihzcOMYUobOBou-svqYLMgK36qDneBVcvGBHJ0Gg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaX=ZDu%2BuaciXa6cGJ6WML_So0v%2BCOQv-smHE2OLc7foc_g@mail.gmail.com> <4FDDDDE6.2000104@daemonic.se>
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In article <CAKYr3zwQqYihzcOMYUobOBou-svqYLMgK36qDneBVcvGBHJ0Gg@mail.gmail.com> you write: >On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se> wrote: >> On 06/17/12 04:14, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >>> >>> I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for >>> one monitor so it is the computer then I heard it is possible to make >>> it so you can watch TV on your computer.... I know about some this for >>> windows but I am dedicated FreeBSD person... how do I go about doing >>> all the research I need to make sure that the following is true: >>> >>> 1. FreeBSD supports all hardware (and the needed functionality) to >>> watch full screen tv on my computer (extra points of a remote can be >>> used)... NOTE: This hardware must be currently fairly mass market >>> 2. What ports to install (right now my desktop is x11-wm/xfce4) make this >>> happen >>> 3. Any tips on making it optimal >> >> >> This is perhaps not the solution you are looking for, but many modern TV >> screens has a VGA and a DVI input connector, as well as many fairly modern >> computers has HDMI output. DVI is also compatible with HDMI, at least to an >> extent. Perhaps you can find a monitor and use it as a dual-purpose monitor >> instead? >> Regards! >> -- >> Niclas Zeising > >I think hes maybe looking for a tv tuner card to plug into his >computer so he can watch TV on the PC also... >Haupauge makes a few and are compatible with FreeBSD. See Setting Up TV Cards >and a good list is freebsd-multimedia >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/tvcard.html That handbook chapter only mentions analog bktr(4) tuner cards so it's a bit outdated. Nowadays you can also use cx88-based analog and dvb-t/atsc(?) pci(e) tuner cards driven by the multimedia/cx88 port, as well as a greater variety of usb tuners supported by multimedia/webcamd which runs the Linux v4l/dvb driver code in FreeBSD userland. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat for some tuners people have reported as working. Another usb atsc tuner that has good chances of working is this one: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950Q (at least it seems pretty popular on Linux.) And about tv apps that you can control using a remote (usually via comms/lirc), the most popular ones are multimedia/mythtv and multimedia/vdr, see these pages: http://wiki.freebsd.org/HTPC http://wiki.freebsd.org/MythTV and http://wiki.freebsd.org/VDR as well as multimedia/xbmc-pvr that you can use with vdr as backend as also described in the above vdr wiki page. HTH, :) Juergen
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