From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 00:41:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0965B16A403 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (gate.funkthat.com [69.17.45.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7090D43C9F for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:41:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (23xi755pakjd7znd@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kBJ0SKN1040481; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.13.6/8.13.3/Submit) id kBJ0SKDf040480; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:28:19 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Stephen Hocking Message-ID: <20061219002819.GD1350@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Stephen Hocking , multimedia@freebsd.org References: <6300771b0612181401i72e7cc58ta08e12de8d68d4d0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6300771b0612181401i72e7cc58ta08e12de8d68d4d0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible FreeBSD port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:41:52 -0000 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. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."