Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:33:29 +0100 From: "Frank J. Beckmann" <frank@barda.agala.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which TV cards do send the audio data via PCI? Message-ID: <200511201833.31435.frank@barda.agala.net> In-Reply-To: <200511200026.43570.danny@ricin.com> References: <200511172331.09307.frank@barda.agala.net> <200511200026.43570.danny@ricin.com>
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Hi, am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 01:26 schrieb Danny Pansters: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:31, Frank J. Beckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm thinking about bying a TV card. It must support PAL and and should > > handle stereo sound. There seam to be different ways how the audio data > > gets into the PC. Most cards use a cable to the sound card. But that > > blocks the only line in input. Now I read that some cards send the audio > > data via > > No. If you have a cable inside your box that goes from tv card audio outlet > -> audio card line inlet it'll be line1, not line. So you can still use the > line channel for extarnal audio that you want to get into your soundcard as > the line-in. But not all tv cards have this. Few cards have an outlet and the inlet of the audio card is blocked by the cdrom. > > the PCI bus to the bktr driver. That sound much more elegant. But which > > No. There are (many) cards with a sound processor of their own, but as far > as I know on FreeBSD they don't get their own mixer (as on Linux) but > rather become the video mixer channel (or something). Do you have examples which cards that are? I guess it is really time for vidoe4bsd. Thank you. -- Frank
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