On Thu, 15 May 2008, roger wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 22:44 -0500, Mike Isely wrote: > > On Wed, 14 May 2008, roger wrote: > > > > > http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html > > > > > > Any connectivity notes with Linux yet? > > > > > > I'm guessing, this is going to be classified as an external hard drive > > > with the PVR's operating system within the first partition of the hard > > > drive and the storage on the second partition. > > > > > > Might be an extremely interesting box if linux users can tinker with it. > > > (Much like the famed Linksys WRT54G boxes ;-) > > > > > > > There has been A LOT of chatter on mythtv-users about this. People are > > salivating over it. Right now AFAIK, there is no Linux driver for it. > > This is basically an HD-capable hardware-encoding video capture device. > > I would expect a driver for it to look like another V4L device. However > > I am unaware of any existing available Linux driver right now. > ... > > This device probably doesn't fall under that > > umbrella. (Not that I wouldn't like to take a real shot at this. But > > we'll see what time will tell.) > > I'll probably keep an eye on this myself. If the device is at least > recognized as an external drive when plugged in via USB, and I can at > least grab CNN/FOXNEWS/History & DISC Channel stuff, I'll probably save > my pennies and grab this device in the future.
Why would a video capture device show up as an external drive? That makes no sense. > > For mythtv devs to try to rewrite the firmware on this device, will > probably take some work, as well as luck. We can all pretty much assume > there's some copyright mechanism employed on it to prevent HBO/Movie > Channel infringements. But, on the other hand, there might be none since > it's much easier to make a copy of a DVD vs. recording something over > the air. > > This will probably be the deciding factor, as well as most, as to > whether I buy another PVR, or just off load everything to a device such > as this, conserving electricty. > Assume whatever you want. I however won't speculate about that until I've seen some hard facts. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
