[BUGA] Re: Multimedia

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 28 March 2006 at 12:27:21 +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> That's part of the problem, yes.  Another is probably the recording
>> industry doing its damndest to make it difficult for people to find
>> out how the existing equipment works.
>
> I think by and large most folks are ignoring the recording industry.
> No DRM scheme they've devised yet has been able to prevent us consumer
> units from doing what we want to do;  We just alter the way we do it
> to work around the DRM, using products mostly sourced from countries
> where the *IA's don't carry as much sway.

That doesn't alter the fact that the recording industry doing its
damndest to make it difficult for people to find out how the existing
equipment works.

>>> The fact that you've dismissed mythtv as too-hard tells a story
>>> about what you see as the basics, but the vendors of TV tuner
>>> devices have a different picture of what the basics look like
>>> (notably: Viewing TV in a window on your computer -- that's pretty
>>> basic, isn't it?)
>>
>> Correct.  Currently I can't do it because I don't know the correct
>> settings for the tuner card.
>
> Having trouble conceiving of any settings more complicated than
> "Australian Channel Set" and "PAL output."  What else does it want?

Values for the following sysctls:

  hw.bt848.card: -1
  hw.bt848.tuner: 13
  hw.bt848.reverse_mute: -1
  hw.bt848.format: -1
  hw.bt848.slow_msp_audio: -1

The first two are the difficult ones.  As you can see, I've set the
tuner (ALPS_TSBH1).  See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bktr&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable&format=html
for some documentation.

Greg
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