Date: 11 Sep 2001 10:39:41 GMT From: micheloo@xs4all.nl (Michel Oosterhof) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which TV card works with release 4.3 ? Message-ID: <9nkpld$61j$1@news1.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3B9DCE0E.A49401BD@users.sourceforge.net>
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lahaye@users.sourceforge.NET (R. Lahaye) writes: I'm using a Hauppauge card (WinTVpro, i think it is), and it works on FreeBSD. There is a driver, and a few applications (fxtv i think it's called), that will allow you to watch tv. So it does work, but the applications are kind of old, and i don't know if they're actively maintained anymore. Basically, most things that use the BTTV (Brooktree) chipset should work. I can watch TV, teletext, listen to radio, make snapshots, and i have a camera attached to it (s-video connection). I'm still looking for some good video conference software myself, i haven't found that yet... >Hi, >I want to use my computer monitor for watching TV. >I'm on the brink of buying a TV card. >A few important general questions to that: >1) which OS supports which card? > Win95/98/NT usually supports everything :(. > However, do I have a choice? > I don't want to tweek a lot with patching/adding > gadgets myself to the kernel and that sort of stuff > (e.g. Linux needs lots of tweeking). How about FreeBSD? You need to do some tweaking, but not that much. Basically enable the driver in your kernel, recompile, and install some ports Then you have to set up all the frequencies for the TV station. That took me some time.. there's no easy to use GUI tool >2) Then at last: what card should I buy? > Or what shipset should be on the card? > If FreeBSD or Linux is not supporting yet, which ones > are likely going to be supported in the fairly near future? Hauppauge works for me. They use the BTTV (Brooktree) chipset. >My collegues tell me to abandon Unix/BSD/Linux on my PC when >wanting to use a TV card. I hope you will tell me otherwise. If you use windows it'll all be a lot more smoother, easier to install, but it'll work with FreeBSD too. >Thanks a lot! >Rob. >PS: please include my personal email in your reply. >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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