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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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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=
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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=
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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...

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