Beta Driver FreeBSD

http://www.sundtek.de/media/sundtek_driver_freebsd82_110406.1321.tar.gz

FreeBSD 64 Bit driver for now, more documentation will be available at a later time.

Upcoming:
* liblma (connector between driver and tvtime and other applications)
* tvtime (ported from Ubuntu to FreeBSD)
* 32bit driver including installer

We have added basic support for our devices to FreeBSD in mid 2010 already, due customer request we decided to completely finish support for this now.

For development we are using a 64bit system with "NVIDIA GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i (C73)" graphic chipset.

* DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T(Brazil) and DVB-S/S2 are supported. (1. April 2011)
* added support for FM Radio (2. April 2011)
* Analog TV simulation driver is now also supported (2. April 2011)
* Analog TV (including audio) via USB TV Tuner is now also supported (2. April 2011)
* Ported tvtime to FreeBSD (2. April 2011)

Performancetest: FreeBSD is highly performant, CPU usage 2-10% when using raw AnalogTV with 2 devices (total 44mbyte/sec or 352 Mbit datatransfer)

Digital TV only requires 15-50 Mbit.

Zitat

63015 root 9 45 0 42260K 14220K select 1 3:45 2.93% mediasrv
63043 root 1 45 r1F 72588K 17468K select 0 4:28 1.86% tvtime
63029 mrec 1 45 0 72588K 17468K sbwait 3 1:02 1.56% tvtime

DVB-C:

AnalogTV (Simulation):

AnalogTV (RTL II)

Driver and TV application CPU utilization is minimal:

Zitat

68170 mrec 1 45 0 72588K 16344K sbwait 0 0:12 3.17% tvtime
68171 root 2 45 0 17164K 2560K pcmwrv 0 0:03 1.95% mediasrv
68166 root 7 46 0 47364K 24812K select 1 0:03 0.10% mediasrv

Jitter within the screenshots are caused by the screenshot mechanism, the original video is fine.

Zitat

fbsd# /opt/bin/mediaclient -e
**** List of Media Hardware Devices ****
device 0: [ Sundtek MediaTV Pro] DVB-C, DVB-T, ANALOG-TV, FM-RADIO, REMOTE-CONTROL, OSS-AUDIO, RDS
  [SERIAL]:
   ID: 0110315023128
  [DVB-C]:
   FRONTEND: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
   DVR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
   DMX: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
  [DVB-T]:
   FRONTEND: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
   DVR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
   DMX: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
  [ANALOG-TV]:
   VIDEO0: /dev/video0
   VBI0: /dev/vbi0
  [FM-RADIO]:
   RADIO0: /dev/radio0
   RDS: /dev/rds0
  [REMOTECONTROL]:
   INPUT0: /dev/mediainput0
  [OSS]:
   OSS0: /dev/dsp0

fbsd# uname -a
FreeBSD fbsd.localdomain 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64