From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 24 07:11:28 2007 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 6387F16A403 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:11:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E481213C46A for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:11:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5FCB8.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.252.184]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01DD2E24C; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:11:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCA05B4817; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:11:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3O7B5DM081066; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:11:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:11:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20070424091105.1amlxlcfsk0c84cw@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:11:05 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: John-Mark Gurney References: <20070423070556.GL73385@funkthat.com> <20070423141718.nym4z6d5w0soo84s@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070423181104.GO73385@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20070423181104.GO73385@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.864, required 8, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cx2388x driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:11:28 -0000 Quoting John-Mark Gurney (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 (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