From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 23:30:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D611065673 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8288FC1B for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:30:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.130.189] (port=33542 helo=smtp2.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc7kH-00056C-JT for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:30:57 +0100 Received: from [84.27.119.97] (port=63833 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp2.groni1.gr.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc7kH-00024U-14 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:30:57 +0100 Received: by desktop.homenet (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:29:51 +0100 From: "Danny Pansters" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:29:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47DF0BEE.4080304@aol.com> <200803191815.11791.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: X-Face: (Zs+'ncTcchkOX|~t6{?Iii=O!G#WEK!+OD0|-F=i%1pvP5V_Sz4PaJC8o)=?utf-8?q?MiSnH/JMJFy=0A=09oBN-My?=, v":S7, (=?utf-8?q?mmkPm=27U=7BMgT+eM=2EBd=5Cp/P!dr=5DhOTXqpse21O!=25Ct=60SE=2EOodq?= =?utf-8?q?=5Dry=5E=23kU=5E=0A=09-?=GT.[8D}i$6P>=" =?utf-8?q?=23=0A=09*J+4d=7E?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803200029.51045.danny@ricin.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Subject: Re: TV Tuner Card 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: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:30:59 -0000 On Wednesday 19 March 2008 19:03:17 Markus Rechberger wrote: > On 3/19/08, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 00:21:43 Ean Kingston wrote: > > > I've got a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR. I don't remember which model (150, > > > 250, 350). It's the one with the FM tuner. The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR > > > line uses the Brooktree chipset and works fine. > > > > Not brooktree, conexant and that's merely the mpeg encoding chip (the > > analog a/v decoder to my knowledge is not supported at all but it doesn't > > really need to be). > > > > > Personally, I would go for either the 150 (price) or the 500 (if you > > > can find one). The 500 is basically 2 150s on a single card so you > > > can record one show and watch another at the same time. > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know if the WinTV-HVR works with FreeBSD? > > > > I don't think so, certainly not the usb sticks. There is quite a lot of > > good info available online especially for the analog a/v decoder from TI, > > as well as for Empia's USB integration. Tuners used on virtually all > > modern (read: hybrid) cards and sticks are mostly xceive or microtune. > > Neither is very keen > > on disclosing much information it seems. > > I will start to work on moving the Empiatech drivers to BSD as soon as > I'm done with the most popular devices for Linux. As for the Hybrid > devices Empia has quite a few new devices in the pipeline, and I'm > going to work for them from next month on. > Although the BSD project will remain a private project for me. Well, thanks for sharing that much :) I reckon you mean that you want to privately develop and at some point make a public release, no? > > Markus