There is a driver for the bt878 chipset based capture cards. I think I have one of these. The quality isn't as good as, say, a pvr150. Plus the 150's are hardware based so don't take up any CPU while they're grabbing, while the bt878s are quite CPU intensive AFAIK.
I've been mulling this same question over for a while myself. MythTV + ZFS would be a kick-ass combo. I'm sure MythTV would really benefit from some DTrace scrutiny ;) Plus adding in a PXE booting frontend would be really neat too. Not that you can't do that with Linux... I've considered trying to port the ivtv driver to Solaris, but having never written a driver - for any OS, I think it would be a very steep learning curve. That driver also depends on the firmware for the card, which would have its own legal problems. That being said, Hauppauge seem quite supportive of linux driver developers, they even list the driver on their own page. Another thing that occurred to me was to use XEN to install an linux domU and assign the pvr cards to it. Though I think it'll be a while before XEN is at that stage for Solaris. Plus its sort of not really a solution, but a workaround. -Chrisk This message posted from opensolaris.org
