Hi Holger-- Upon rereading my note re #2, it could have been taken to mean that y'all are inflexible and wouldn't accept code for another PCI bridge. Just to be clear, I don't mean that.
Probably a good way to get to full support for ATSC would be to fully support the Pinnacle PCTV Sat. While it is a DVB card, it is based on Conexant's DStream reference design with a Fusion 878A chip acting as the bridge. The transport stream is sent over the I2S channel. The WinTV-D can also use the Fusion 878A in the same manner. I note that a couple of weeks ago somebody suggested that they were working on a Pinnacle PCTV Sat driver for Linux. I don't know whether that is destined to be included in the Linux-DVB code or whether any progress has been made. Regards-- Dan >From: Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Daniel Schmelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: ATSC? >Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:41:55 +0100 > >Daniel Schmelzer wrote: >>Hi Matt-- >> >>A good place to find information on these cards is AVS Forum >>(www.avsforum.com). Do a search in the home theater computers section >>and you'll have a couple of days of reading. ;-) Most of the info is >>regarding Windows. There is precious little open source code, since the >>HD decoder cards on the market are based on the Teralogic TL880 >>decoder/bridge, and Teralogic has been tight with the info. >> >>If you are interested in doing some hardware coding for these cards, the >>WinTV-D is an excellent and inexpensive choice. It uses the Fusion 878A >>PCI bridge. If so, drop me a line, as I have a contact at Hauppauge who >>would help us. >> >>See the below for some chip lists. >> >>http://www.schmelzer.org/dschmelzer/computers.htm >> >>I think that there is some open source demux code for Windows, which >>might be somewhat portable to Linux. >> >>As to your questions: >> >>#1 -- Yes, you can. But the open source code isn't totally there. >> >>#2 -- Probably not. The ATSC cards use different PCI bridges (either >>the Teralogic TL880 or the Fusion 878A). So the project would have to >>accept code for these bridges. > >Since we don't have any ATSC transmissions here, the development has to >done somewhere else. We'll always accept patches which make sense and >don't break other code. Feel free to contribute! > >- Holger > > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
