Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:44:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: tajudd@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Subject: Re: Tv-card for freebsd Message-ID: <201007241644.o6OGin3I008872@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil5_9VmP3zAl-4kNWX-lblRPWZ6Dcxq4CoRaln5@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C3DB83A.5030406@bah.homeip.net>
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In article <AANLkTil5_9VmP3zAl-4kNWX-lblRPWZ6Dcxq4CoRaln5@mail.gmail.com> you write: >On 7/14/10, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> wrote: >> Hello list! >> >> I'm in the process of buying a tv-card for dvb-t transmissions. >> >> Any tips on cards that have a driver for freebsd? >> >> Thank you. > > >For a built-in tuner card itself, no recommendations. > >For an alternative solution, look at silicondust.com for the HDHomeRun >boxes. I've had one for a long time and it is a beautiful device. >Simply stated, a dual (or more) digital tuner to ethernet bridge. > >[...] Another option may be an usb tuner with webcamd on FreeBSD 8.1; webcamd is a pretty cool hack by the author of FreeBSD 8's new usb stack that essentially runs Linux usb v4l/dvb/atsc drivers on FreeBSD in userspace and is now in ports: http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/webcamd I've put together some (hopefully) useful info here: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/ and there I'm also maintaining experimental ports for vdr which most Linux users I know prefer over mythtv which is already committed to ports. But `simpler' apps like mplayer, kaffeine, vlc, etc can of course also be used if you build the respective ports with the V4L knobs enabled in their `make config'. (and DVBPSI too in case of vlc.) HTH, Juergen
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