Since the version 1.9.1, xdtv should work
on the systems OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD.

Since xdtv has been implemented originally under linux,
xdtv will perhaps work less nicely than under linux.

This work is still in developpement. If you think that you have found
a bug, post an article at the URL:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=517405&group_id=67268

xdtv/bsd has been tested on OpenBSD 3.0/3.4 with pthread="GNU Pth 1.4.0"
and FreeBSD 4.9, so if you have a different system it may not work....

To install xdtv use the commands:

--
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/pkg/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib"
make
make install
--

(change the CC argument of configure to your mind)

The three new things which have been done for the portage:
-- driver for bktr instead of bktr
-- use of software threads.
-- support of sun audio driver (only for openbsd and netbsd)


Known problems

1) THREADS:
In fact the threads seem to cause big problems.
So if you think you have problems with threads, you can
try with the "GNU Pth" threads, even if these threads are not
preemptive, it should anyway work.
(http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth.html)
(In fact it seems to work only if they are compiled 
WITHOUT syscall-hard and WITHOUT syscall-soft....)

To compile with linux threads under freebsd, you should do:
./configure CFLAGPTHREAD=-I/usr/local/include/pthread/linuxthreads LIBPTHREAD="-L/usr/local/lib -llthread -llgcc_r" (does not seem to work)

See also:
http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/
http://www.unobvious.com/bsd/freebsd-threads.html


2) YUV Format.
Format YUV seems to cause problems (with my card a bt878)
on OpenBSD (3.0 and 3.4)
It does not work on continuous capture.

You can force another format by the command:

xdtv -grabfmt rgb24

It is quite slow so I use the limit to capture size, to have
a goot full-screen:

xdtv -grabfmt rgb24 -capt_width 384 -capt_height 576

Strangely on my card it work in "read" mode,
but it is very slow.
so it works (very slowly) with:

xdtv -bktr_read


3) Teletext.
At first, teletext works if /dev/vbi0 exists.
On OpenBSD 3.0 you must create this device manually with the command

mknod /dev/vbi0 c 49 32 

It seems there are problems when recording, and
seeing teletext in the same time. It is probably related
to the used threads (GNU Pth...).

4) On OpenBSD 3.4, with the default installation
   gcc must have the option -Wl,-E to make dlopen work correctly
   moreover MMX is unsupported by the system, so you must
   use the option --disable-mmx to configure.

5) Under FreeBSD 4.9 (and probably others)
   The bktr driver are not installed by default.
   to install them do:
(cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV bktr0)
(cd /usr/src/sys/modules/bktr; make; make install)
   and put  in /boot/defaults/loader.conf
bktr_mem_load="YES"
bktr_load="YES"
   and reboot
The MP3 recording segaults with the default package lame-3.93.1
but it works if you install lame-3.95.1
(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.95.1.tar.gz)


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TESTED SYSTEMS (with a bt878 card):
Here I give the options to configure and xdtv which were necessary
to make xdtv work properly

OpenBSD 3.0 with GNU Pth 1.4.0:
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib
xdtv -noxv
xdtv -grabfmt rgb24

OpenBSD 3.4 with GNU Pth 1.4.0
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" \
  LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-E" --disable-mmx
xdtv -noxv
xdtv -grabfmt rgb24

FreeBSD 4.9:
./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
xdtv