Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:40:18 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@jakemsr.com> Cc: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: bsdav status on FreeBSD (was: Re: Buying a TV Capture card (pinnacle, hauppauge: wincast, pvr, etc)) Message-ID: <20051207124018.0c0b9359@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20051207051226.GI8139@puff.jakemsr.gom> References: <20051206154440.61804.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20051207051226.GI8139@puff.jakemsr.gom>
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:12:26 -0800 Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@jakemsr.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:44:18PM -0200, Mario Sergio Fujikawa > Ferreira wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am considering acquiring a tv capture card in order to > > build a personal PVR system. Besides helping me test the video > > capture support of some ports I maintain. [ ... ] > IMO, mplayer/mencoder should not be used to judge image quality > or performance of bktr(4). I get stutter from those programs that I > don't get from other programs. and they do some video processing > instead of direct display. > > IMO, and I'm probably biased on this, bktrplay from bsdav is > a really good program for testing quality of bktr cards. it's > simple and straight forward. no filtering and it does not try to > force the frame rate (which is AFAICT where the stutter in > mplayer/mencoder comes from) but uses the signals from bktr(4) > to refresh the frames. also, run it with -vvv from a console > and you will get useful diagnostics (actual frame rate). I'm sorry, I didn't have time to import the OpenBSD changes in bktr [1] code (not resetting the channel when accessing bktr), hence the port is still marked broken. [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/bktr/bktr_core.c.diff?r1=1.15&r2=1.16 -- IOnut - Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit
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