Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:11:05 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cx2388x driver? Message-ID: <20070424091105.1amlxlcfsk0c84cw@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20070423181104.GO73385@funkthat.com> References: <20070423070556.GL73385@funkthat.com> <20070423141718.nym4z6d5w0soo84s@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070423181104.GO73385@funkthat.com>
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Quoting John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> (from Mon, 23 =20 Apr 2007 11:11:04 -0700): > Alexander Leidinger wrote this message on Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 14:17 +0200= : >> Quoting John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> (from Mon, 23 >> Apr 2007 00:05:56 -0700): >> >> >Hello, >> > >> >I just found out that the ATI HDTV Wonder card I have is based on the >> >cx2388x chip. I was wondering if someone has a driver or started work >> >on a driver before I do? >> > >> >/me hopes to add a third HD capture card. >> >> What about committing your current driver to the CVS? And we lack a > > I plan to, and was thinking about it over the weekend... The biggest While I only have a Satellite dish and can not use it, I'm looking =20 forward to this. My hope is that we gain more people doing work in =20 this area in this way and maybe someone works even on some stuff for a =20 satellite cards at some point in time... > issue I see is what to do w/ the capture program... Right now the > program is only useful for FusionHDTV5 Lite cards (and doesn't yet > validate that the card we're attempting to talk to is this card), and > so of limited use... > > I guess we need to start somewhere, and once we start getting more > cards supported, moving to a more generic library and capture program > will be inevitable... Yes. >> driver for satellite receiver cards... anyone with some ideas >> regarding this? >> >> >P.S. Besides MythTV, does anyone have a good backend to control TV >> >recording? I've hacked up a web based backend in Python that works >> >> You could have a look at http://www.networkmultimedia.org/ and give it >> a try on FreeBSD. I did see it in action ~4-5 years ago on Linux >> systems when it was in the middle of the core development (there's >> still development, but now it's about new features). > > It looks interesting, and the core has a decent license (LGPL)... I'll > have to play w/ it some... 4 years ago they used ~10 1 GHz CPUs with distcc to compile this. Even =20 with this they did need around 20 hours to compile everything from =20 scratch. I don't know about the compile times they have today. But I =20 think it is worth the time. Bye, Alexander. --=20 (1)=09If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology. (2)=09If it stinks, it's chemistry. (3)=09If it doesn't work, it's physics. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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