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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:23:41 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Rod Person <personrp@hotpop.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Video Capture, TV tuner devices
Message-ID:  <20050201182341.GA15135@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200502011233.53661.personrp@hotpop.com>
References:  <200502011233.53661.personrp@hotpop.com>

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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:33:52PM +0000, Rod Person wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a video capture of TV Tuner device for my PC.
>=20
> Does anyone have any experience with Plextor ConvertX PVR devices? They a=
re=20
> usb and that makes me a little shy in the purchase of one.
>=20
> My other choice would be eVGA's NVTV, but I'm not sure if it will work wi=
ll=20
> FreeBSD.
>=20
> I'm using 5.3.

AFAICT, the only video driver in the kernel is the 'bktr' driver, which
supports cards based on the bt848/bt848a/bt849a/bt878/bt879 chipset. See
paragraph 7.5 of the Handbook.

Roland
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