From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 00:42:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DE916A41F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:42:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) Received: from mail231.csoft.net (resin.csoft.net [63.111.22.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25A9843D46 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:42:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) Received: (qmail 2035 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2005 00:42:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO puff.jakemsr.gom) (63.111.27.87) by mail231.csoft.net with SMTP; 21 Nov 2005 00:42:17 -0000 Received: (from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) by puff.jakemsr.gom (mini_sendmail/1.3.5 16nov2003); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:42:03 PST (sender jakemsr@puff.jakemsr.gom) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:42:03 -0800 From: Jacob Meuser To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051121004203.GB19362@puff.jakemsr.gom> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <20051117232316.53554.qmail@web30310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200511181637.42158.frank@barda.agala.net> <20051119021457.GB26115@puff.jakemsr.gom> <200511201840.31441.frank@barda.agala.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511201840.31441.frank@barda.agala.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Subject: Re: Which TV cards do send the audio data via PCI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:42:07 -0000 On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:40:30PM +0100, Frank J. Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > am Samstag, 19. November 2005 03:14 schrieb Jacob Meuser: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:37:40PM +0100, Frank J. Beckmann wrote: > > > Is there really no bt8x8 card that sends the audio data via PCI? > > > > no. what do you really gain by that anyway? it's not like the > > bt8x8 cards/bktr driver are so finely tuned that the minimal "delay" > > or "interference" of running a wire to the soundcard is going to be > > noticeable. > > You need an audio card for each tv card the way it is handled now. :-( many audio cards have more than one input. pretty sure most (all?) people with a TV card will already have a sound card anyway. and is it even possible to use more than one bktr card in a machine? > > plus, NetBSD and OpenBSD use a different audio > > architecture than FreeBSD, but bktr is pretty much the same across > > the three. there are some OS dependent bits, but adding a real > > audio interface would add a whole lot more. > > Many parts of the BSDs differ but that should be no reason for not making > things better. bktr has been in the FreeBSD tree for more than 8 years. in that time, apparently no one has thought it worth the effort. I still think it's a very marginal "better" with a lot of complicated processes involved. --