New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500

Tobias Roth roth at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Oct 11 09:21:58 PDT 2006


On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:02:03AM +0200, usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> Tobias,
> 
> On 10/11/06, Tobias Roth <roth at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> >
> >Question: will Mythtv work on FreeBSD?
> 
> it does, i am running 0.18-fixes. but i have changed a lot ( converted
> it to use postgresql, and removed about all busy waits )
> 
> i checked out 0.19 a couple of weeks ago, it compiles just fine on 6.x
> after a few minor changes ( i have created a port, but have not
> submitted it yet ). i do not know if/how it runs: i just compiled it.
> if someone wants to give it a shot: let me know.
> 
> if it does not run properly, i will consider submutting my heavily
> patched 0.18-fixes as a port.

That sounds very promising! But I have to clarify my original question:
Do both the Mythtv frontend and the backend work on FreeBSD? Or are you
only talking about the backend.

Thanks,
Tobias


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