Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:30:54 -0500 From: dieterbsd@engineer.com To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD support for modern TV tuners? Message-ID: <8CD72A2E8E2D0F6-B84-15C61@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com>
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> There's this guy under Linux, don't know about FreeBSD for it: > http://pchdtv.com/ HD-5500 The cx88 driver supports the HD-5500. I have the older HD-3000 card and the cx88 driver is better than the linux driver. http://corona.homeunix.net/cx88wiki/Overview/SupportedCards These require a slot per tuner, and PCI slots are going away. The HDHomerun doesn't need a slot or a device driver. It provides better info than most tuners. However word is that some other tuners get better reception. And it doesn't do analog TV or FM. > Would also like to play with ripping the full bandwidth raw ATSC-TS > from the air and transcoding that if the MPEG2 wasn't good. When recording ATSC-TS you can save disk space by filtering out the PIDs you don't need. I usually only save 2 PIDs (1 video, 1 audio). Some=20 tuners can filter PIDs for you, or you can do it after recording. What do you mean by "if the MPEG2 wasn't good"? Transcoding to a=20 different lossy format will lose quality. IIRC there are lossless formats out=20 there but I haven't tried them.
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