DVB-S Live TV on FreeBSD with MythTV 0.23 and webcamd

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Gerard

It’s not true anymore that FreeBSD does not support any DVB-S devices. Thanks to the work of Hans Petter Selasky on video4bsd there are now DVB-S/2 devices for USB that just work.

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The work on MythTV to get this running only took me one evening and was just because nobody compiled mythtv with v4l support lately. It also helped a lot that Jürgen Lock already played with the same device and found and fixes a few things.

So what do you need to do now if you want to build your PVR on FreeBSD? (continues)


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Gerard is a keen user of open source operating systems and software. On this blog he shares FreeBSD news and links that he comes across.
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