Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-22 Thread Dieter BSD
user.vdr writes: As long as there remain some NTSC broadcasts, there might be some that you wish to watch. That's why I wrote: Yes, technically there are still some that exist, for now. However, their death certificate is signed and they're so few that it's not worth mentioning. If you

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-22 Thread Dieter BSD
user.vdr writes: Tuners do NOT provide raw audio/video to the system in any case. http://corona.homeunix.net/cx88wiki/Overview/RawVideo While that's technically possible in _some_ cases, and assuming it's fully implemented and functional, I'm unaware of any software that actually provides

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-22 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: Yes, technically there are still some that exist, for now. However, their death certificate is signed and they're so few that it's not worth mentioning. If you don't think NTSC is worth mentioning, why do you keep

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-22 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: The cx88wiki URL above describes the cx88 software (in ports). For tuners without a hardware encoder, raw video/audio is the only thing you can get from the tuner when receiving NTSC. Nope. Prove me wrong.  Post the

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-22 Thread George Mitchell
On 06/22/12 11:48, VDR User wrote: [...] NTSC is not a stream of bits. NTSC is analog. The tuner converts the NTSC analog waveform into a raw stream of bits. This raw stream of bits is too large to conviently store on disk, so it needs to be compressed/encoded into mpeg or similar. Some tuners

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
An old Pentium 4 3ghz can decode HD with plenty of cpu resources to spare so unless a person using something older than that, they've certainly got modern cpu power. actually even intel atom D525 is OK if decoder can be multithreaded. As for analog streams older PCI based TV cards are still

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-19 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: An old Pentium 4 3ghz can decode HD with plenty of cpu resources to spare so unless a person using something older than that, they've certainly got modern cpu power. actually even intel atom D525 is OK if

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a few Atom systems but they all use vdpau for decoding and I never bothered to see how just the Atom holds up on it's own for decoding. :) didn't have 1920x1080 video but 1366x768 MPEG4 plays smooth ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a lot of CPU or hardware compression.  Decoding either takes a lot of CPU (or hardware decoding which AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't have). You can use watching SDTV movie takes very little part of one core of any modern CPU including intel atom. encoding SDTV will take more but still not much.

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-18 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: [ Added multimedia@ as that is a more appropriate list than hackers ] I just moved into a very cramped apartment we are using a broadcast signal only [current US {NYC} standards] Recording ATSC takes very little CPU.  

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-18 Thread Dieter BSD
user.vdr writes: Recording doesn't require any compression unless you are transcoding in real-time. There's no difference between recording ATSC, NTSC, PAL, etc, and it's actually irrelevant what the stream is. This is incorrect.  ATSC is compressed before broadcast, so you receive the data

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-18 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: user.vdr writes: Recording doesn't require any compression unless you are transcoding in real-time. There's no difference between recording ATSC, NTSC, PAL, etc, and it's actually irrelevant what the stream is. This

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-17 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 06/17/12 04:14, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for one monitor so it is the computer then I heard it is possible to make it so you can watch TV on your computer I know about some this for windows but I am dedicated FreeBSD person...

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-17 Thread Outback Dingo
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Niclas Zeising zeis...@daemonic.se wrote: On 06/17/12 04:14, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for one monitor so it is the computer then I heard it is possible to make it so you can watch TV on your

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Just a small notes on requirements we *DO NOT* have cable or any other non-broadcast service (we are using a broadcast signal only [current US {NYC} standards]) On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Juergen Lock n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de wrote: In article

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-17 Thread Juergen Lock
In article cakyr3zwqqyihzcomyuobobou-svqylmgk36qdnebvcvgbhj...@mail.gmail.com you write: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Niclas Zeising zeis...@daemonic.se wrote: On 06/17/12 04:14, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for one monitor so it

Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-17 Thread Dieter BSD
[ Added multimedia@ as that is a more appropriate list than hackers ] I just moved into a very cramped apartment we are using a broadcast signal only [current US {NYC} standards] You'll need to know if you have any NTSC (analog) stations you care about or if everything is ATSC (digital).  

how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for one monitor so it is the computer then I heard it is possible to make it so you can watch TV on your computer I know about some this for windows but I am dedicated FreeBSD person... how do I go about doing all the research I