Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:29:50 +0100 From: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV Tuner Card Message-ID: <200803200029.51045.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <d9def9db0803191103p3141c953wc48c02be4b907c52@mail.gmail.com> References: <47DF0BEE.4080304@aol.com> <200803191815.11791.danny@ricin.com> <d9def9db0803191103p3141c953wc48c02be4b907c52@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 19 March 2008 19:03:17 Markus Rechberger wrote: > On 3/19/08, Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 00:21:43 Ean Kingston wrote: > > > I've got a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR. I don't remember which model (150, > > > 250, 350). It's the one with the FM tuner. The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR > > > line uses the Brooktree chipset and works fine. > > > > Not brooktree, conexant and that's merely the mpeg encoding chip (the > > analog a/v decoder to my knowledge is not supported at all but it doesn't > > really need to be). > > > > > Personally, I would go for either the 150 (price) or the 500 (if you > > > can find one). The 500 is basically 2 150s on a single card so you > > > can record one show and watch another at the same time. > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know if the WinTV-HVR works with FreeBSD? > > > > I don't think so, certainly not the usb sticks. There is quite a lot of > > good info available online especially for the analog a/v decoder from TI, > > as well as for Empia's USB integration. Tuners used on virtually all > > modern (read: hybrid) cards and sticks are mostly xceive or microtune. > > Neither is very keen > > on disclosing much information it seems. > > I will start to work on moving the Empiatech drivers to BSD as soon as > I'm done with the most popular devices for Linux. As for the Hybrid > devices Empia has quite a few new devices in the pipeline, and I'm > going to work for them from next month on. > Although the BSD project will remain a private project for me. Well, thanks for sharing that much :) I reckon you mean that you want to privately develop and at some point make a public release, no? > > Markus
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