Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:02:06 Apr 04, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: > My bad again, vlc uses the same kind of kilometric command line as mplayer, > so I thought they where brothers. ;-) One more useless post from me. ;) There is one important difference between vlc and mplayer that matter to me. vlc is written in C++

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-04 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Jacob Meuser wrote: 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. i

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-04 Thread Unix Fan
Jacob Meuser wrote: > I still prefer bktrplay + tunerctl from > http://jakemsr.trancell.org/bsdav-1.4.tar.gz for watching TV, but I > know those programs, since they are mine. mainly, bktrplay has better > full-screen support, and has fewer artifact issues than either fxtv > or xawtv. bktrpl

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:46:21AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 22:06:32 Apr 03, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > http://jakemsr.trancell.org/bsdav-1.4.tar.gz > > Jake, > > 404 Not found. > > Where do you have it? > oops http://jakemsr.trancell.org/distfiles/bsdav-1.4.tar.gz -- [EMAI

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:06:32 Apr 03, Jacob Meuser wrote: > http://jakemsr.trancell.org/bsdav-1.4.tar.gz Jake, 404 Not found. Where do you have it? I can't find it in your page either. -Girish

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
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 ne

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 06:52:58 Apr 04, 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 b

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:52:58AM +1030, 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

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
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. There are two apps to watch TV, fbtv (needs some editing not explained clearly) and xawtv xawtv can further be hacked to allow th

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Diana Eichert
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Damon McMahon wrote: Greetings, SNIP 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 fxtv and bktr device work fine. however more info is re