Video Capture Cards
Searched in the mailing list but no luck. Has anyone set up a MythTV backend? Any does anyone know of issues with the WinTV-PVR-350 on FreeBSD? Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Video Capture Cards(correction)
Original Message Subject:Video Capture Cards Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:38:32 -0500 From: Derek Funk dfu...@cox.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Searched in the mailing list but no luck. Has anyone set up a MythTV backend? Any does anyone know of issues with the WinTV-PVR-350 on FreeBSD? Derek WinTV-HVR-2250 not WinTV-PVR-350 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Recomendations for Video Capture Cards
Since no one else seems to have replied... On Wednesday 16 February 2005 22:36, Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Hi all, I've recently had a PC become available, and I would like to set it up as a kind of video recorder. I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect the PC to my TV, and record television programmes on the hard-drive. The reverse also - playing back the recording, and viewing it on the TV. Now, i've done a little research, and I understand that FreeBSD provides support for PCI-based TV cards using a Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 or a Conexant CN-878/Fusion 878a Video Capture Chip with the bktr(4) driver. Does anyone have any recomendations on a video capture card that would be suitable? Anything Brooktree, which are most PCI cards, e.g. WinTV, Miro, Pinnacle, but also the more expensive ones like osprey. Do make sure to put the card in a PCI slot where it has sufficient ventilation. The tuner unit can get very warm. I have had a WinTV card that apparently had caught on fire a few years ago (I remember smelling something funny...). IMHO the bad thing is that we basically only have one driver for TV cards, the good things are that it works very well (try video4linux, then bktr and see) and that the vast majority of TV cards have a bktr chip. I'm using an old Miro-Bt848 card now. It does freeze everything sometimes (if I could switch to a console it would show a panic), e.g. when changing input sources quickly, I think when it's reinitialized too fast, but I've seen the same happen on Linux and Windows. Bad firmware that never got updated would be my guess. Also, I always found that your tossed aside VCR cam plugged into the V-in of a framegrabber card makes a great webcam as well. We have a few working TV apps, the best arguably being Fxtv which is especially written for the bktr driver. It works well but looks a bit outdated. As for more modern apps, KDETV is not ported yet (I've looked at it; a porter would basically have to either create an interface to our framegrabber/tuner/audio devices that mimics v4l or v4l2 or/and rewrite a lot of the other code to use FreeBSD's ioctls and other provisions instead -- both are doable but not trivial) and neither is Gnome's equivalent AFAIK. We don't have anything canned-in specifically for either Gnome or KDE at the time for TV viewing. You can use (k)mplayer as a TV renderer though. If you use KDE: I've been experimenting a bit with using kmplayer's dcop functions to change the channel/frequency while running kmplayer with TV input and it seems to have some potential. That's all I can tell about TV cards. HTH, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recomendations for Video Capture Cards
Forgot one thing... I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect the PC to my TV, and record television programmes on the hard-drive. The Most normal VGA cards now have a TV outlet, you could use that while playing the video full screen in X or SVGA. Never done it myself, but I'd say you'd have to set up X for TV-ish horizontal and vertical frequencies (low). Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recomendations for Video Capture Cards
Hi all, I've recently had a PC become available, and I would like to set it up as a kind of video recorder. I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect the PC to my TV, and record television programmes on the hard-drive. The reverse also - playing back the recording, and viewing it on the TV. Now, i've done a little research, and I understand that FreeBSD provides support for PCI-based TV cards using a Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 or a Conexant CN-878/Fusion 878a Video Capture Chip with the bktr(4) driver. Does anyone have any recomendations on a video capture card that would be suitable? Has anyone done anything like this before? I presume so as the driver already exists. How successful (or otherwise), did the project turn out? I realise there is lots of software in the ports collection that can provide audio/video capture capabilities, but does anyone know of any that can be scheduled to automatically start and stop capturing at predefined times? I suppose I could use the crontab if the software supports command line configuration... Regards, Jazz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
