From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 00:49:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04967 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 13538 invoked from network); 8 Feb 1999 08:49:04 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 1999 08:49:04 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990208004158.00a7ce60@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:47:31 -0800 To: Eddie Lawhead From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Which TV tuner card? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36BE9BAC.B444454F@uk.radan.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id AAA04968 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:09 AM 2/8/99 , Mark Ovens wrote: >Eddie Lawhead wrote: >> >> Does anyone have any experience with TV Tuner cards under FreeBSD? I have >> a friend that I am trying to convince to use FreeBSD rather than Linux. >> He just wants to know if the Win TV Card will work. > >If they're anything like Win modems then almost certainly not. > >> If not what about the ATI All In Wonder? >> > >I'm pretty certain someone on the list said they had that working (I >remember, because it made me think about getting one). > >If you don't get a definitive answer, check the mail archives (it must >have been -chat or -questions as they're the only 2 I subscribe to). > >Good luck with your friend, hope it's a case of FreeBSD++; Linux-- ;-) The ports collection has a program (FXTV) which works with any Brooktree 848-based TV tuner card. Video cards listed by the driver it uses (http://gable.nrl.cs.uoregon.edu/~dwhite/) are: · Hauppage's Wincast TV · The STB TV PCI Television Tuner · Miro PC TV · Smart Video Recorder III · VideoLogic Captivator PCI · IMS TV Turbo · AVer Media TV/FM --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message