Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 13:56:41 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: receiving aerial digital TV Message-ID: <201302021256.r12Cuf5t033483@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20130201194812.187567edda1c66ad43a44a20@getmail.no> References: <CAA3ZYrDaMaPR8ZGp-RshNmoEvO8QSOmBfve3zdEEoF9gHX6T1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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In article <20130201194812.187567edda1c66ad43a44a20@getmail.no> you write: >On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:27:54 -0800 >Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [ This topic is better discussed in -multimedia@, suggest that followups >> drop -hackers@ ] >> >> > i am out of current knowledge about common TV for about 10 years. >> > >> > Currently in Poland there is aerial TV broadcasted in DVB-T standard. >> > There are TVs with builtin decoder/demodulator or separate >> > decoders/demodulator with HDMI output. >> > >> > But how about just receiving demodulated data and letting mplayer play it, >> > and - most importantly - recording it directly. I know there are USB >> > receivers on market. >> > >> > Are such devices supported under FreeBSD? if so - what driver, what >> > chipset to look when buying such a thing? any other recommendation. > >Another option is webcamd (in ports) - it supports a whole lot of usb devices, through their linux drivers. >I currently have an older version installed on this machine: >root@kg-v2# portversion -v webcamd >webcamd-3.7.0.4 = up-to-date with port > >tingo@kg-v2$ apropos webcamd | grep -i dvb >a800(4) - webcamd driver for AVerMedia AverTV A800 DVB-T receiver >af9005(4) - webcamd driver for Afatech 9005 DVB-T receiver >af9015(4) - webcamd driver for Afatech 9015 DVB-T receiver >au6610(4) - webcamd driver for AU6610 DVB-T >ce6230(4) - webcamd driver for Intel CE6230 DVB-T >cinergy(4) - webcamd driver for Cinergy T2/qanu DVB-T >cxusb(4) - webcamd driver for Conexant USB DVB >digitv(4) - webcamd driver for Nebula Electronics uDigiTV DVB-T >dtt200u(4) - webcamd driver for DTT200U DVB-T devices >dtv5100(4) - webcamd driver for AME DTV-5100 DVB-T >dw2102(4) - webcamd driver for DVBWorld and TeVii DVB-S/S2 >ec168(4) - webcamd driver for EC168 DVB-T >gp8psk(4) - webcamd driver for GENPIX DVB-S >m920x(4) - webcamd driver for m920x DVB-T >nova-t(4) - webcamd driver for NOVA-T DVB-T >opera(4) - webcamd driver for Opera1 DVB-S >ttusb2(4) - webcamd driver for Technotrend DVB >umt(4) - webcamd driver for UMT-010 DVB-T >vp702x(4) - webcamd driver for TwinhanDTV StarBox DVB-S >vp7045(4) - webcamd driver for TwinhanDTV DVB-T >webcamd(8) - daemon to provide access to USB webcam and DVB devices That list btw is not exhaustive, some (mostly newer) Linux drivers webcamd includes don't have manpages yet. There also is a wiki page listing (among others) some DVB/ATSC tuners people tested, https://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat > >as for recording and viewing TV, ports also have Freevo, MythTV, VDR and XBMC. > .and I posted a small guide about digital TV on forums.freebsd.org: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=35179 HTH, :) Juergen
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