Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:28:19 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible FreeBSD port? Message-ID: <20061219002819.GD1350@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <6300771b0612181401i72e7cc58ta08e12de8d68d4d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <6300771b0612181401i72e7cc58ta08e12de8d68d4d0@mail.gmail.com>
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Stephen Hocking wrote this message on Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:01 +1100:
> is anyone in the process of doing a port to FreeBSD? I'd think that the
> frontend would be relatively straightforward, but I'm not sure of the status
> of TV tunder APIs under FreeBSD.
The tuner API is pretty adhock... And I'd say that the kernel is the
wrong place to be putting that sort of thing... I did my HDTV driver
w/ minimal kernel support, and all the tuning is done via userland...
I have a python module that interfaces w/ the HDTV capture card, that
does tuning and capturing.
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