On 7/15/05, Michael Chmilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the details of the communication protocol and remuxing > algorithm are available, I am willing to look at writing a > linux driver for the r5000hd. However, I am not interested > in reverse engineering anything.
I don't want to play reverse engineer either. Any developer here who's looked at code I've submitted would probably agree that that's getting me in way over my head. :) I've already emailed them, and I plan to do so again once I read up on libusb enough to figure out if I can handle working with it. I'd suggest anybody else who's interested send a polite email about getting the protocol and muxing format - if we can demux it, I don't believe using libavformat to remux it will be difficult. > But there is interest from me! :-) I am doing it for myself. I > will make my scripts and setup available to anyone else who wants > to use them. If no one else cares, so be it. Well, I'm interested in getting *some* sort of HD satellite recorder, but I want MythTV to talk to it directly. I was suggesting that you might get more help from other developers if it's done the "right" way. Then again, nobody else has really spoken up yet, so maybe nobody else is interested at all. > Writing a driver is a lot more work than writing a couple of > Perl scripts and figuring out how to get MythTV to execute them. I'm not entirely sure that's the case. If the XP software can act as a pass-through filter that provides D-VHS to MythTV, that would be easiest - don't we already have support for external scripts for tuning? If you have to have the XP box pipe it back over the network or something similar, then you're probably getting into territory that's not much better than a user-space driver. If you can get it to work with a filter on the XP box, and an external tuner script in Myth, would you be willing to put in a little work testing the results of efforts at direct communication with the R-5000HD? The extra computer could do as a band-aid for a wound that we'd like to stitch up later... -- Andrew Mahone andrew DOT mahone AT gmail DOT com _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
