Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:20:52 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Bernhard_Fr=C3=B6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> To: Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hauppague card with free (or pc) bsd Message-ID: <CAE-m3X3nmt20aiPjyj5mJpE8pzyBUEH91wNYOe77_WWKSKmMPg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKmZw%2BYfoiAp6Mzt21A0CdYk8fVngWhLbqhbaM6eFWmCm4_oFA@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 10.01.2016 6:52 nachm. schrieb "Brad Alexander" <storm16@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > I'm new to the list and new to BSD, having come over from Linux. I just > converted my wife's machine over to pcbsd, which is a spork of freebsd. Her > machine has a Hauppague card plugged into the cable box, so I have the > system loading the bktr driver. According to dmesg: > > bktr_mem: memory holder loaded > bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xeb000000-0xeb000fff irq 19 at device 1.0 on > pci5 > bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > bktr0: Hauppauge Model 44801 D110 > bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner. > > What app do I set her up with to watch live TV? Is there a HOWTO on doing > this? On Linux, I was using tvtime, but that was a little long in the > tooth, the last update was in 2005, plus the FAQ states: > 7. Does tvtime support FreeBSD or NetBSD? > > Currently, tvtime will not work on BSD-based systems, but the code to get > it to work should not be too difficult. > > There is a driver for bt848 and bt878-based cards under BSD called > *bsdbt848*. The API for this driver is different from Linux's video4linux > that tvtime was written for, so the first job would be to do the input code > in tvtime to handle this driver. See mplayer <http://mplayerhq.hu>; for one > example of some code that uses this driver. > > The only other Linux-specific feature that we use would be the /dev/rtc > code to do high performance timing (I assume there is a BSD equivalent of > this). > > So I was planning on using Kodi and TVHeadend, but did not see TVHeadend in > the repos. So what is the best way to set this up and what end app can i > use to get TV in a windowed session on her desktop? multimedia/tvheadend is there but it only supports the v4l api like most other ported applications. In FreeBSD we have v4l only for USB devices provided by cuse4bsd/webcamd. So to go forward if you only need to display the raw stream then it's possible to do that but if you want to use some shiny tvheadend/mythtv/vdr/kodi/vlc/... then you'd better buy a USB device which is supported by webcamd. There are some wiki pages on wiki.FreeBSD.org which can give you some overview about that.home | help
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