On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Ralph Metzler wrote: > Terry Hardie writes: > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Brian Foddy wrote: > > > > > I know this isn't exactly on the list topic, but your list is the closest I > > > can find. > > > > > > Does anyone know of any projects, card makers, reverse engineering, > > > etc to get an HDTV tuner card working in Linux? I've done a lot of > > > searching and can't find anything. > > > > > > I see 3 popular card makers (Hipix, Access DTV, Hauppauge) seem > > > to make HDTV tuner cards, but no Linux drivers. I can't even > > > find anyone talking about the subject. I know this is a relatively > > > new subject, but I'd link I could find some discussions on it. > > > > > > Long-term, I want to get HDTV timeshifting. > > > > Has anyone here looked at the twinhan boards? (www.twinhan.com). They're > > only around $100, and basically do DVB demodulation. Video playback would > > be in software. I've heard rumors that with this board is possible to do > > 4:2:2 video and HDTV. They have a full linux SDK right on their website... > > I don't think they have cards with ATSC tuners/demodulators (yet?). > > For cheap DVB software decoding rather use another card (KNC, Lifeview, > Hauppauge/Technotrend Nova, etc.). Some of them at least support Linux > development by supplying information about their products. > They also do not just "borrow" code from bttv to use it in a > proprietary closed source Linux SDK.
You're right about the ATSC part, but there are quite a lot of HDTV stuff in DVB, at least here in the USA. All the networks are up in HD DVB as well as some neat networks like HDNet. --- Terry Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHOUTip Engineering Product Manager ICQ#: 977679 net.com, 6530 Paseo Padre Parkway Mailstop #2207, Fremont, CA 94555, USA V: +1-510-574-2366 -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
