> if you're a start-up maker of home entertainment=20 > appliances or set-top boxes, then you have only one way to go: Linux.=20
Linux is not the only game in town. > If you can manage to get some video=20 > hardware that is well-supported in Linux at least... > > If that happens, video-in should be at the top of the list for post-OGA1=20 > development... There are tuner cards with Linux drivers. The hardware has room for improvement, as do the drivers. :-( There are analog-only tuner cards with BSD drivers. There are analog&digital tuner cards and USB boxes with BSD drivers currently under development. I'm watching this, and may try the USB version (machine has no more slots) once the driver is ready. The current hardware has room for improvement. Better interference rejection, (start with better shielding and better filtering) better multipath rejection, etc. Developers have trouble getting documentation for the chips. A 6th generation tuner that is significantly better than the 5th generation devices and has good documentation would be very popular. Many people are having reception problems with the 4th and 5th generation tuners. Not just OTA reception either, some users have trouble with cable. Testing the prototype would be non-trivial. Different signal levels, a wide variety of interference, a wide variety of static and dynamic multipath ensembles, etc. Another candidate for the 2nd chip would be OGC2 = OGC1 + onchip video decoding, since it doesn't look like decoding is going to make it into OGC1. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
