Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:46:52 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD video recorder (was: FreeBSD as a HTPC!) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0811282346p1c7b6c52q714d5b6ccd0941ce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811290710.HAA09724@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <20081129030722.GD26930@dereel.lemis.com> <200811290710.HAA09724@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote: >> I started on this track a while back, but the main problem I've had is >> that FreeBSD doesn't support any digital tuners. Here in Australia we >> have digital TV with resolutions of up to 720p (1280x720 >> non-interlaced) or 1080i (1920x1080 interlaced). 720p is better. > > Well... 720p is better in some ways, 1080i is better in others. > But for tuner support what matters is ATSC or DVB-T. > >> So what I do is to copy the saved MPEG files to the FreeBSD machine >> and use mplayer, along with a series of scripts, to play it. I'm >> using a DVICO remote control (the one that came with the tuner), and >> not coincidentally this is one of the few TV remote controls which >> FreeBSD supports. > > There is a FreeBSD driver for the DViCO FusionHDTV5 if that's the tuner > you have. I don't know if it supports DVB-T though... > > And Jason has written a driver that supports several cx88 based cards. > And there is the HDHomeRun that just needs Ethernet. > > So you can use FreeBSD for recording, if you have the right tuner. > Support for additional tuners would of course be welcome. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > does anyone know how the heck you build the driver for the divco fusion? as far as I can tell it is a bunch of files in p4, which means it is a huge pain to get them. I think I did manage to build the kernel module but it made my amd64 machine kernel panic. I sent an email to JohnMarkGurney with some questions, but I never got a reply. so saying the card is supported maybe a stretch. -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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