From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 01:03:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06667 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eddie.silk.net (eddie.silk.net [204.244.76.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA06661 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@eddie.silk.net) Received: (from eddie@localhost) by eddie.silk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA26671; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:14:28 -0800 (PST) From: Eddie Lawhead To: Ludwig Pummer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which TV tuner card? In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208004158.00a7ce60@mail-r> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id BAA06663 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > 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 That is great!! Thanks a bunch, exactly what I need. I guess I should've checked LINT first...I just wouldn't think a tv tuner driver would be stock..:) > > --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) > ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Eddie H. Lawhead FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Kelowna, BC, Canada http://www.FreeBSD.org eddie@silk.net http://www.Silk.net =-=-=-=-=-=-= Enriched, V-Card, HTML Messages > /dev/null =-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message