On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:19:27AM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: > TV is limited to the bktr driver, see man bktr > In short TV cards with the bt848 or bt878 chip > (and very early bt8x8 compatible conexant chips). > CX23xxx will not work.
I've only seen conexant 878. in old (10 years), and new (well, 2-3 years ago new in store) capture devices. > > There are two apps to watch TV, > fbtv (needs some editing not explained clearly) and > xawtv fbtv actually works on OpenBSD? > xawtv can further be hacked to allow the, imvho better, motv > > Mplayer and vlc also should work. there's no bktr support in vlc. > Damon McMahon wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >Just wondering if anyone here is using/has used OpenBSD to view TV and > >if so what hardware and software they use/d. I gather from looking > >through the hardware and packages pages that a combined tuner/video > >capture device supported by bktr(4) and the fxtv package imported from > >FreeBSD may work? > > > >I'm thinking of putting together a second-hand box in our kitchen as a > >gift for my other half so any thoughts on minimum hardware specs would > >be appreciated too. > > > >Cheers, > >Damon > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
