receiving aerial digital TV

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 06 February 2013 17:39:21 Lars Engels wrote:
> 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?

Yes, send me a patch!

--HPS