Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:14:52 -0500 From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? Message-ID: <4F5FB8CC.8080303@puresimplicity.net> In-Reply-To: <20120313210636.GD10311@thought.org> References: <20120311202816.GA7754@thought.org> <20120311221958.37717d66.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F5D3954.1090807@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4F5EB08D.7090407@ShaneWare.Biz> <4F5EB36A.4090609@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120313210636.GD10311@thought.org>
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On 3/13/12 4:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:39:38PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > so that's it. i messed around with mythtv last fall on my ubuntu > distro. couldn't get anywhere and finally realized that =you need some > kind of HARDWARE=. I have an HDHomeRun...The original "classic" two-tuner model, from http://www.silicondust.com. It's a stand-alone DTV streamer. I use it with an antenna; apparently you can get versions that work with antennas or cablecard/cable TV as well. Works great. I use it with Windows Media Center for scheduling recordings, but they work great with MythTV, VLC and others for recording. Using VLC, I've recorded some videos of a local band on a morning show that have ended up on YouTube...I can send links if you want to see how it looks, although that station only broadcasts in 480i. For what it's worth, I've successfully used three BT848/878/878+ cards---all of which were PixelView or STB cards---in the same machine running FreeBSD with the bktr driver and Motion to handle surveillance-camera duties. mplayer/mencoder could only use bktr0 cause they hard-code bktr0 in the source and seemed thoroughly uninterested in fixing this oversight, even though the change would be fairly minor. Hope that helps someone. Cheers, Josh -- Josh Tolbert hemi@puresimplicity.net || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
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