Chris Kennedy was working on the PVR-150 and from what's been posted, he has
it working, except for audio.  Ulf got that working, but appears to be MIA,
so Chris hasn't gotten those mods from him yet, to wrap up into a test
release.

The PVR-150 and PVR-500 both use a new chip, the CX25840, so the work Chris
is doing for the PVR-150 will apply to the PVR-500, only the PVR-500 has
dual tuners, dual encoders, etc., so he'll have some work on getting them
both set up and working together.

I've had a couple PVR-500's on order from buy.com for over a month now.  One
is for Chris to use for development and testing.   If they ever start
shipping them, perhaps we'll see some progress.   Hopefully, Ulf will show
up one of these days so we can get a complete test version for the PVR-150.


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ivtv-devel] Re: PVR-500 development help

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:57:49PM -0600, Paul Miller wrote:
> I recently have gotten very interested in building my own PVR system and
I'd 
> like to use the PVR-500 board, but currently there appears to be little 
> support for it in Linux.  Anyhow, I'm wondering what I can do to help out
the 
> development process in terms of programming.  I'm very familiar with DSPs,

> microcontrollers, and other embedded processors, and I'm somewhat familiar

> with embedded Linux and kernel drivers.  I have little experience writing 
> drivers for commercial hardware though -- only my own digital hardware.
> 
> My question is where to start?  I'm hoping to have the board around Xmas
time.  

I thought the PVR 500 is OEM only, or not?

> Are there any datasheets available?  After this week, I'll start poking 
> around in the code...  anything else I should be thinking about?

The driver should be the same as the one for the PVR 150 (I think it
should just look like two PVR 150 cards), so the status of the PVR 150
applies to the PVR 500 as well (see other threads). I can send you
datasheets if you'll like to develop for the PVR 150/500.

> Is there a way to monitor hardware registers, etc. in Windows?  or perhaps

> using VMware?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net



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