receiving aerial digital TV

[Lars Engels]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:56:41PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> In article <20130201194812.187567edda1c66ad43a44a20 at getmail.no> you write:
> >On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:27:54 -0800
> >Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> [ This topic is better discussed in -multimedia@, suggest that followups
> >> drop -hackers@ ]
> >> 
> >> > i am out of current knowledge about common TV for about 10 years.
> >> >
> >> > Currently in Poland there is aerial TV broadcasted in DVB-T standard.
> >> > There are TVs with builtin decoder/demodulator or separate
> >> > decoders/demodulator with HDMI output.
> >> >
> >> > But how about just receiving demodulated data and letting mplayer play it,
> >> > and - most importantly - recording it directly. I know there are USB
> >> > receivers on market.
> >> >
> >> > Are such devices supported under FreeBSD? if so -  what driver, what
> >> > chipset to look when buying such a thing? any other recommendation.
> >
> >Another option is webcamd (in ports) - it supports a whole lot of usb devices, through their linux drivers.
> >I currently have an older version installed on this machine:
> >root at kg-v2# portversion -v webcamd
> >webcamd-3.7.0.4             =  up-to-date with port 
> >
> >tingo at kg-v2$ apropos webcamd | grep -i dvb
> >a800(4)                  - webcamd driver for AVerMedia AverTV A800 DVB-T receiver
> >af9005(4)                - webcamd driver for Afatech 9005 DVB-T receiver
> >af9015(4)                - webcamd driver for Afatech 9015 DVB-T receiver
> >au6610(4)                - webcamd driver for AU6610 DVB-T
> >ce6230(4)                - webcamd driver for Intel CE6230 DVB-T
> >cinergy(4)               - webcamd driver for Cinergy T2/qanu DVB-T
> >cxusb(4)                 - webcamd driver for Conexant USB DVB
> >digitv(4)                - webcamd driver for Nebula Electronics uDigiTV DVB-T
> >dtt200u(4)               - webcamd driver for DTT200U DVB-T devices
> >dtv5100(4)               - webcamd driver for AME DTV-5100 DVB-T
> >dw2102(4)                - webcamd driver for DVBWorld and TeVii DVB-S/S2
> >ec168(4)                 - webcamd driver for EC168 DVB-T
> >gp8psk(4)                - webcamd driver for GENPIX DVB-S
> >m920x(4)                 - webcamd driver for m920x DVB-T
> >nova-t(4)                - webcamd driver for NOVA-T DVB-T
> >opera(4)                 - webcamd driver for Opera1 DVB-S
> >ttusb2(4)                - webcamd driver for Technotrend DVB
> >umt(4)                   - webcamd driver for UMT-010 DVB-T
> >vp702x(4)                - webcamd driver for TwinhanDTV StarBox DVB-S
> >vp7045(4)                - webcamd driver for TwinhanDTV DVB-T
> >webcamd(8)               - daemon to provide access to USB webcam and DVB devices
> 
> That list btw is not exhaustive, some (mostly newer) Linux drivers
> webcamd includes don't have manpages yet. 

Can we add stub manpages for those?
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