$30k, ouch. And if the card makers are bound by the same NDA, that may be a major reason why they don't release specs.
I saw the Slashdot article also, it looks interesting. However as I understand it, there would be a couple problems. 1. The card they use to do the A-D conversion is $1300. That takes it well out of even the expensive hobby range. But far cheaper than $30,000. 2. I'd be concerned if the process running completely in software could be fast enough with todays processors to be real-time so as to create a time shifting system. I'll definately keep an eye on the project, I subscribed to their mailing list. And its very possible I'm not understanding their project well enough to make a judgement. As for doing my own reverse engineering of a card, that is quite a jump from my current skills also. I've never tried to r-e anything like that, but I'll never say never. To get a true timeshifting HDTV box would really be great. Thanks for the info. Brian On Sunday 23 February 2003 12:46 am, Mark Lehrer wrote: > I have been looking into this myself for awhile. It looks like all > of the affordable HDTV cards use the same chipset, Teralogic, which > will not release the programming information necessary without a > significant fee ($30k plus NDA when I called them) > > I am not quite skilled enough to reverse engineer a driver like > that. > > There was a story on Slashdot recently about a GNU project to do > this, check it out. > > Mark -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.