Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:47:53 +0100 From: Dave <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I turn my FreeBSD desktop into a set-top box? Message-ID: <11660930.NCbaWZNhqK@amd.asgard.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXmuOJPFJ_BxWofBtd3VPqwG4E=VyNasaVtb3qZLSosFhQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXmuOJPFJ_BxWofBtd3VPqwG4E=VyNasaVtb3qZLSosFhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 17 October 2015 17:04:42 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Any ideas? (What hardware and stuff out the ports collection).... please > keep hardware limited to anything available in a computer superstore like > MicroCenter (not special order or web only) > > I switched ISP's for the first time in 5 years and now have access to cable > TV for the first time in 15 years (I have not owned a TV for 10 years). > So I am very new to the hardware side of the the equation but I have worked > in streaming media so am at home on the software side. > > So far I have hooked the HDMI and speakers up to my monitor (I need to move > the back and forth between the sound card and the monitor currently). > > Here is the dmesg for the machine I want to set stuff up on: > Have a look at MythTV and Kodi. Both will install on a FreeBSD system, but both also are available as "images", ie Linux with everything already set up to "Just Work(tm)" Personally, I have Kodi running on twp Rasperry Pis (using OSMC/Kodi), a couple of FreeBSD boxes and a Windows box all sharing a central MySQO database. MythTV is a bit more involved with more options, eg seperate backend and multiple seperate frontends and IIRC can be a bit of a bugger to set up on FreeBSD (might have changed in recent years.) MythTV seems to have better support for off-air recording/transcoding/advert cutting but I've not used any of that. I don't use mine for live/off-air TV/recording but from what I've seen you need to be very, very careful with choice of tuners if using FreeBSD while Linux seems to be a bit more accommodating. Kodi seems to have much better support for streaming via various add-ons, especially those from 3rd-party repositories (or so I'm told. Some may not be entirely legal in some jurisdictions) In particular, my non-technical wife can easily handle Kodi using her tablet or smartphone as the remote with the Kodi Remote App.
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