

It works well and is supported by MythTV ( which is arguably the best PVR application available on unix (linux or freebsd). Single and dual tuner version are available for both US (ATSC) and the rest of the world (DVB) and aren't much more expensive than PCIe or PCI digital tuners. They have single, dual and quad-tuners (that last one is very expensive). What you should use instead are networked tuners like an HD HomeRun (short HDHR) from Silicon Dust: It will for some, it completely won't for others: so it's not a path you want to follow. Most of the digital tuners available these days (be it DVB or ATSC) only come with windows or linux support (via V4L: Video for Linux).Įven using ESXi my experience is that pci passthrough doesn't work consistently well.

Hardware TV tuner support in FreeBSD is virtually non-existent.
