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On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 22:09 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >  Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source
> > software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get
> > and what software works with it?
> 
> mplayer play video files fine.
> 
> no idea about HDTV tunes

Mplayer works great, so does Xine. Thats what I use- I use mplayer for
recording using the dumpstream option and do post processing later with
mencoder.

The problem lies with getting the tuners themselves to work due to lack
of drivers...