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HTPC with FreeBSD

    
Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 02:53 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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ProjectsThis project will show my efforts to build a Home Theater PC (or HTPC for short) with FreeBSD. The goal is to have the necessary hardware and software into this machine so that I can
  • watch and record TV
  • listen to radio channels
  • play DVDs
  • play digital video (many formats)
  • play digital music (mp3, ogg, etc.)
  • control it with a remote control
It will be network connected. Nice extras will be the ability to show pictures from the hard drive or a card reader.

Useful links to look at: the PVR hardware database, the Linux HTPC How-to, eBox and eboxy, Freevo, MythTV, VDR, xawtv, DVR (for Linux), Russell Pavlicek's "Building a Linux-based time-shifting box",
Don't forget that the FreeBSD Handbook has a section on setting up TV cards.

Things I need:

  • nice sleek computer case
  • computer (barebone system, mainboard?) with sound, TV out, network
    • I will use the MSI Hermes 845GV barebone system with a black case
    • Status: TV out tested. Here are the current quirks: NTSC mode only, currently I don't know how to change to PAL. On my TV, only a b/w picture. this might be because my TV is too old for S-video signals.
  • storage: large HD or raid? (local HD for now)
  • TV card (aquired: Pinnacle PCTV Stereo)
    • Status: a working PCTV tv card aquired. Tested with xawtv = ok, fxtv = ok. Radio not working yet (tested with xmradio and tuneradio).
  • remote control (aquired: serial connect, came with TV card)
    • Status: tested with lirc - working. Configuratiion of a working setup next.
  • DVD player (writer also?)
    • either a combo DVD player CD-RW burner or a DVD player. Will be added later.
FreeBSD, video drivers: VideoBSD and BT848 / BT878 driver and the SAA7134 driver and applications for FreeBSD 5.x, and more.
 
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Zapping
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 04:09 CET
Zapping, a TV viewer for Gnome environment. It has Teletext support. Requirements are V4L, V4L2 or XVideo suppprt for the TV card.
Xtheater
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 04:13 CET
Xtheater is a media player for Linux, capable of playing MPEG video and audio files, network streams, and VCDs, as well as AVI and ASF files.
mysettopbox.tv
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 04:24 CET
Also see mysettopbox.tv. It tells you how to set up a Linux machine for PVR, Jukebox, Image viewer and Game station. It also has KnoppMyth, a Knoppix optimized for MythTV.
Windows ... btwincap
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 04:31 CET
Use btwincap under Windows. It is a WDM Video Capture Driver for WinMe, Win98SE ,Win2000 and WinXP for Capture Boards based on Brooktree´s Bt848 / Bt849 / Bt878 & Bt879 Chipsets.
Dscaler
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 04:35 CET
DScaler DScaler is a piece of software that grabs analog, interlaced video, and deinterlaces it to make it a progressive scan feed then allows scaling to any resolution for use on your computer monitor or projector.

Analog, interlaced video is what devices like VCRs, laserdisc, and game consoles output.

  • Dscaler - Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 04:40 CET
Zottels archive
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 05:22 CET
contains a few DOS / windows based projects, like ZAS/mp3,which is a FreeDOS based Mp3 machine. See zottels web page.
Linux Open Media Box
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 05:38 CET
LOMB is another interesting project. The target platform is a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX with a flash memory card and a DVD-drive. Aslo USB and remote control support. They use embedian as the os.
Norsl leverand;r av fjernkontroller ogHTPC kabinetter
Authored by: tingo on Thursday, January 29 2004 @ 21:47 CET
Vendur.no har fjernkontroller for PC, og fine HTPC kabinetter.
ETV - interesting PVR project
Authored by: tingo on Monday, February 23 2004 @ 22:30 CET
ETV is an interesting PVR project. The frontend runs on Windows, and the backend on Linux.
XdTV
Authored by: tingo on Tuesday, September 13 2005 @ 23:52 CEST
XdTV is a TV viewing application, and it has a FreeBSD port (work-in-progress).
MediaPortal
Authored by: tingo on Friday, September 16 2005 @ 10:11 CEST
Mediaportal is a HTPC / mediacenter application for Win XP (sp2).
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