Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:47:52 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video capture cards for FreeBSD laptop Message-ID: <20100627164752.GA52062@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100623141603.GC42847@e.0x20.net> References: <20100623114141.GA4151@current.Sisis.de> <20100623141603.GC42847@e.0x20.net>
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:16:04PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:41:41PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've Google'd around a bit but I don't see any real solution. My wife > > has a FreeBSD laptop with 8-REL and wants to watch TV from time to time. > > Any solution via USB or PCMCIA cards? Or even a small network box which > > could be connected via LAN/WLAN by mplayer... > > > > Thanks in advance > > Hi Matthias, > > the "Freecom DVB-T USB Stick" works nicely with webcamd + vlc. That one no longer seems to be sold tho, or only at pretty high prices... If I look at e.g. http://geizhals.at/deutschland/?cat=vidext&xf=800_USB I find usb dvb-t tuners for as cheap as 9 eur tho I don't know which of those work with webcamd, but if you want to experiment and maybe use the 14-day return policy if one doesn't work... (or look up an usb tuner on sites like http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information , maybe ask on freenode irc #linuxtv, find out which linux driver it uses and check /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd/work/webcamd-0.1.12/Makefile after `make extract' in /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd to see if webcamd builds that driver, and hope it works too...) But how ever you try, don't forget to post your findings here! If you want hdtv in Germany you'll need dvb-s2 (if you have a satellite dish) or dvb-c (if you have cable, but remember often otherwise fta `private' channels are crypted on cable unless you stick to analog transmissions which I don't know for how much longer they'll be around and also you won't get hdtv that way), and dvb-c and dvb-s(2) tuners are more expensive than dvb-t ones tho the picture quality (bandwidth) also often is better than with dvb-t. Oh and the hdtv versions of the german `private' channels are `paytv' everywhere (i.e. crypted), even on satellite, the only fta hdtv chanels on Astra 19.2E atm are Das Erste, ZDF, arte, Anixe and Servus TV. (And EinsFestival HD but that one only plays test loops most of the time.) I use a PCTV 452e Sat HDTV Pro USB dvb-s2 tuner which works pretty well now with vdr (as well as kaffeine, mplayer, and szap-s2 with most any player, only vlc's builtin dvb support seems to be broken for this tuner but that I can live with.) If you want full pvr functionality (epg, timers, recordings, client/server network playback/streaming/webinterface, osd, teletext, multiple tuners... only using a remote may still be a problem) you can try mythtv from ports or my preliminary vdr ports (which still have loose ends but are very much functional at least for me tho a lot of `less important' plugins aren't ported yet, some manual tweaking may still be required and I don't know if anyone has tested xineliboutput's vdpau support on FreeBSD yet), see here: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/ and the threads linked from there like: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2010-June/011154.html (most Linux users I know prefer vdr over mythtv. :) > Jun 23 16:13:25 root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x14aa product 0x0225 bus uhub7 > Jun 23 16:13:25 kernel: ugen7.2: <vendor 0x14aa> at usbus7 > > There should also be some other Sticks with the same chip. > > The only issue I have is that it is also recognized as a ukbd, so I had > to remove the ukbd entries in /etc/devd.conf. That's probably the remote... (which other usb tuners often have extra code for in their drivers, but webcamd doesn't support those parts yet so you'd need to play with an extra receiver and lirc most likely if you want to use the remote.) Oh and if any u.s. people are still reading, vdr seems to support atsc now too, tho I dunno if anyone tried that with webcamd yet. Cheers, Juergen
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