Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:19:38 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se>, outbackdingo@gmail.com, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to turn my computer into a TV Message-ID: <CAGBxaXmqMjPqgh=3SJbbpteMnw7F4QvfJ=LN_yaq2LydefA3RQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201206171702.q5HH2qJY039490@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <CAGBxaX=ZDu%2BuaciXa6cGJ6WML_So0v%2BCOQv-smHE2OLc7foc_g@mail.gmail.com> <4FDDDDE6.2000104@daemonic.se> <CAKYr3zwQqYihzcOMYUobOBou-svqYLMgK36qDneBVcvGBHJ0Gg@mail.gmail.com> <201206171702.q5HH2qJY039490@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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Just a small notes on requirements we *DO NOT* have cable or any other
non-broadcast service (we are using a broadcast signal only [current
US {NYC} standards])
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrot=
e:
> In article <CAKYr3zwQqYihzcOMYUobOBou-svqYLMgK36qDneBVcvGBHJ0Gg@mail.gmai=
l.com> you write:
>>On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se> wro=
te:
>>> On 06/17/12 04:14, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for
>>>> one monitor so it is the computer then I heard it is possible to make
>>>> it so you can watch TV on your computer.... I know about some this for
>>>> windows but I am dedicated FreeBSD person... how do I go about doing
>>>> all the research I need to make sure that the following is true:
>>>>
>>>> 1. FreeBSD supports all hardware (and the needed functionality) to
>>>> watch full screen tv on my computer (extra points of a remote can be
>>>> used)... NOTE: This hardware must be currently fairly mass market
>>>> 2. What ports to install (right now my desktop is x11-wm/xfce4) make t=
his
>>>> happen
>>>> 3. Any tips on making it optimal
>>>
>>>
>>> This is perhaps not the solution you are looking for, but many modern T=
V
>>> screens has a VGA and a DVI input connector, as well as many fairly mod=
ern
>>> computers has HDMI output. DVI is also compatible with HDMI, at least t=
o an
>>> extent. Perhaps you can find a monitor and use it as a dual-purpose mon=
itor
>>> instead?
>>> Regards!
>>> --
>>> Niclas Zeising
>>
>>I think hes maybe looking for a tv tuner card to plug into his
>>computer so he can watch TV on the PC also...
>>Haupauge makes a few and are compatible with FreeBSD. See =A0Setting Up T=
V Cards
>>and a good list is freebsd-multimedia
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/tvcard.html
>
> That handbook chapter only mentions analog bktr(4) tuner cards so
> it's a bit outdated. =A0Nowadays you can also use cx88-based analog
> and dvb-t/atsc(?) pci(e) tuner cards driven by the multimedia/cx88
> port, as well as a greater variety of usb tuners supported by
> multimedia/webcamd which runs the Linux v4l/dvb driver code in
> FreeBSD userland. =A0See
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat
>
> for some tuners people have reported as working. =A0Another usb
> atsc tuner that has good chances of working is this one:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-=
950Q
>
> (at least it seems pretty popular on Linux.)
>
> =A0And about tv apps that you can control using a remote (usually via
> comms/lirc), the most popular ones are multimedia/mythtv and
> multimedia/vdr, see these pages:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://wiki.freebsd.org/HTPC
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://wiki.freebsd.org/MythTV
>
> and
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://wiki.freebsd.org/VDR
>
> as well as multimedia/xbmc-pvr that you can use with vdr as backend
> as also described in the above vdr wiki page.
>
> =A0HTH, :)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Juergen
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