On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:38:05PM +0200, J.O. Aho wrote: > > Gregorio Gervasio Jr. wrote > > I know that it's really long time since the original post was written. > > > >m> Most Hauppauge WinTV cards are bt8x8 cards, which would work with > >m> this driver. However, the WinTV PVR series that the original poster > >m> referred to is unrelated. They use a real-time hardware MPEG2 > >m> encoder and I don't think anybody's written a Linux driver for it yet > >m> (let alone one that would work on a non-Intel platform). > > > > There's one under development (still early but some people are > >already using it for MythTV): > > > >http://ivtv.sf.net/ > > > >I don't know how difficult it would be to port to a PPC platform. > > The driver is x86 only, depends quite heavilly on the x86 hardware and > isn't easilly rewritten for PPC. I had to experience this the hard way, > buy buying a PVR250 for my Pegasos, driver didn't compile, so I made some > hasty hacks, but no that didn't help, so PVR250 and PVR350 and any other > board using the same chip will not work on PPC untill someone starts a new > project to write an platform undependent driver or a special one for PPC.
Well, maybe someone will. Now, there is also the freevo project, who is rumored to work on ppc, well, at least i heard of one guy who had it working on Pegasos. And i think i have seen a package sitting in the NEW queue :/ Friendly, Sven Luther
