FreeBSD: MythTV and driver porting, ...

[Rick Nekus]

ya, let me re-word that,  I was a lott off topic, and not very realistic.
:)


>From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org>
>To: Rick Nekus <solarux at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD: MythTV and driver porting, ...
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:46:48 +0930
>
>On Tuesday, 10 April 2007 at 12:35:54 +0000, Rick Nekus wrote:
> >
> > I'm a little off topic, or not as informed GPL-wise, but this is
> > definitely in FreeBSD's interest (as you guys might already
> > anticipate :)
> >
> >   [1]http://www.nforcershq.com/article3056.html
>
>OK, this is the announcement of a motherboard wit an inbuilt tuner.
>
> >   I've also seen a  "lot" of newer MB's with built-in Cable
> >   Ready/Antennae/Sat IN, including TV-Tuner, and an HDMI-output soon
> >   replacing the now antiquated 15-pin VGA output.
> >
> >    So, ...drivers and MythTV porting will be a must since eventually
> >   just like every good (multimedia)thing will end up as "standard' (i
> >   use that term loosely :) on x86/AMD64/... Motherboard hardware.
>
>Sure.  Note that MythTV has already been ported.  The tuner issue is
>well known.  The question is: how do we get good tuner support?
>Currently Linux has the momentum, but their kernel structure is
>incompatible with ours, so we can't just use their drivers.
>
>Greg
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