Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:34:52 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV Tuner Card support under FreeBSD Message-ID: <200411082134.53314.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20041108184332.GB13531@funk.gsky.dom> References: <bddfa6fa041106012168dcf4f6@mail.gmail.com> <200411061440.34409.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041108184332.GB13531@funk.gsky.dom>
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--nextPart1120068.C8nUfyaGFZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 8. November 2004 19:43, Jacob Meuser wrote: > The All-in-Wonder cards are supported by the Gatos project, but I'm not > sure if the Gatos TV programs work in FreeBSD. The GATOS maintainer recently made moves to get the GATOS code merged into = the=20 xorg ati drivers, so the support should finally become somewhat more easily= =20 to obtain for end-users in the foreseeable future. > As far as support for this in XawTV, I doubt it. I'm pretty sure XawTV > only supports bktr(4) and v4l(2). Have a look at the xawtv manpage, section SUPPORTED HARDWARE / INTERFACES. > > BTW, XawTV would be more useful with bktr(4) (would be able to use all > the libavcodec formats available through libquicktime) [...] I personally have been using mplayer for watching and grabbing TV ever sinc= e=20 the bsdbt848 driver started to work on FreeBSD, with its great video filter= s=20 and codec support it's easily the best application in terms of picture=20 quality and recording support, it very much lacks wrt to the interface thou= gh=20 (the mplayer gui has no support for tv mode at all, only non-gui version wi= th=20 keyboard shortcuts works). And mplayer's tv-input indeed has no support for= =20 Xvideo... =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1120068.C8nUfyaGFZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBj9htXhc68WspdLARAvm1AJ97lruf++6VpEXdDq0UhyiIHHZyZwCfbL7J f757mndzmOmVtOdc6C0yJSs= =F4XD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1120068.C8nUfyaGFZ--
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