Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:18:43 -0700 From: Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com> To: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, matrix@ipform.ru Subject: Re: DVB (digital video broadcast) cards in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001003141843.A26208@lns.com> In-Reply-To: <200010032022.PAA34511@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>; from tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:22:34PM -0500 References: <013401c02d58$5f899d00$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <200010032022.PAA34511@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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Hauppauge has a card that will decode DTV. Not sure if FreeBSD supports it as I doubt it has a BT848 chip on it. http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/html/wintv-d.pdf http://www.hauppauge.com/html/specs.htm Tim -- On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:22:34PM -0500, mark tinguely wrote: > > > Several people have been asking if there is any driver > > for any DVB card in FreeBSD and getting no answer > > they sadly installed linux as the only alternative to Windows. > > > > So, is there a driver for DVB? Anybody working on one? > > Is a DVB card a MPEG-2 capture card, a MPEG-2 manipulation/mixer, > or a MPEG-2 distribution card? from the DVB web site, it appears the answer > to the above question is "yes". > > I have been digging around some of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 chipset > company's web sites off and on for a couple years and I have not > uncovered a huge amount of technical information that could used > for a drivers. > > A MPEG-1 capture card would greatly help FreeBSD in the MBONE server > role and a MPEG-2 capture card would help for the new digital television > services. I think MPEG-2 has better embedded potential for someone with > deep pockets. > > --mark tinguely > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." - Bertrand Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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