Re: Cable TV on the PC with Netbsd

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 18 Dec 2013 at 13:40, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On 18 December 2013 12:48, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > If you buy a digital cable set-top box, it usually comes with a way of
> > getting the TV stations streamed as MPEG2 streams. Then, you can use
> > VLC to watch TV.
> 
> What about analogue TV instead? Which drivers do I need?

Hi

I'm still using a TV card on Win98 but other PCs have 
similar TV cards with ancient installs of SuSE, FreeBSD
and NetBSD. What works is very dependent on the whole
system, cpu, motherboard chipset, operating system and
software versions. On one setup I was reliably running
FlightGear from NetBSD's linux emulation but neither
FreeBSD nor native SuSE on same pc was reliable. TV was
also working from NetBSD on that system.
 
You need to know the chipsets to answer what drivers you
need then in most cases NetBSD will already have detected 
and be able to use the TV card. In some cases the card 
will be detected but not configured due to a variation in
chipset version which can be from trivial to impossible 
to fix.
  

David

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> -- 
> Ottavio