Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:34:43 -0500 From: Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Bernhard_Fr=C3=B6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hauppague card with free (or pc) bsd Message-ID: <CAKmZw%2BYospCngykLW1b5bLiPqpw%2BCEToy-kDoN_D80%2B-cvN%2B-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X3nmt20aiPjyj5mJpE8pzyBUEH91wNYOe77_WWKSKmMPg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKmZw%2BYfoiAp6Mzt21A0CdYk8fVngWhLbqhbaM6eFWmCm4_oFA@mail.gmail.com> <CAE-m3X3nmt20aiPjyj5mJpE8pzyBUEH91wNYOe77_WWKSKmMPg@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks for your response, Bernhard, So what would you sugest for an older pci card? All she really needs is channel 3 since all of channels are handled by the cable box. I have installed fxtv, but haven't had any luck with it as yet. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Bernhard Fr=C3=B6hlich <decke@bluelife.at> wrote: > > Am 10.01.2016 6:52 nachm. schrieb "Brad Alexander" <storm16@gmail.com>: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to the list and new to BSD, having come over from Linux. I just > > converted my wife's machine over to pcbsd, which is a spork of freebsd. > Her > > machine has a Hauppague card plugged into the cable box, so I have the > > system loading the bktr driver. According to dmesg: > > > > bktr_mem: memory holder loaded > > bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xeb000000-0xeb000fff irq 19 at device 1.0 o= n > > pci5 > > bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > bktr0: Hauppauge Model 44801 D110 > > bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner. > > > > What app do I set her up with to watch live TV? Is there a HOWTO on doi= ng > > this? On Linux, I was using tvtime, but that was a little long in the > > tooth, the last update was in 2005, plus the FAQ states: > > 7. Does tvtime support FreeBSD or NetBSD? > > > > Currently, tvtime will not work on BSD-based systems, but the code to g= et > > it to work should not be too difficult. > > > > There is a driver for bt848 and bt878-based cards under BSD called > > *bsdbt848*. The API for this driver is different from Linux's video4lin= ux > > that tvtime was written for, so the first job would be to do the input > code > > in tvtime to handle this driver. See mplayer <http://mplayerhq.hu>; for > one > > example of some code that uses this driver. > > > > The only other Linux-specific feature that we use would be the /dev/rtc > > code to do high performance timing (I assume there is a BSD equivalent = of > > this). > > > > So I was planning on using Kodi and TVHeadend, but did not see TVHeaden= d > in > > the repos. So what is the best way to set this up and what end app can = i > > use to get TV in a windowed session on her desktop? > > multimedia/tvheadend is there but it only supports the v4l api like most > other ported applications. In FreeBSD we have v4l only for USB devices > provided by cuse4bsd/webcamd. > > So to go forward if you only need to display the raw stream then it's > possible to do that but if you want to use some shiny > tvheadend/mythtv/vdr/kodi/vlc/... then you'd better buy a USB device whic= h > is supported by webcamd. There are some wiki pages on wiki.FreeBSD.org > which can give you some overview about that. >
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