Re: Is anybody working on TechniSat CableStar Combo HD CI USB device?

2010-06-08 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
On Tue, June 8, 2010 08:26, Tobias Maier wrote:
 The Micronas DRX series seems to 'evil' in that there
 is only a closed-source driver and the manufacturer doesn't cooperate
 with open source developers.
 Have you asked them or are you simply asuming this because there is no
 open source driver?

It is important to notice that the vendor (Trident) doesn't seem to want
helping with open source development. Contacts with the vendor were tried
during 2007 and 2008 in order to get their help by opening docs, via Linux
Foundation NDA program, without success.

The vendor also seems to be refusing so far to help the development of a
driver for their demod DRX-K line that they acquired from Micronas (as
pointed at http://linux.terratec.de/tv_en.html).

(http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Trident_TM6000)


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linuxtv.org Wiki pages not found by Google

2010-06-07 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right list, but here it goes: Google does not seem
to find pages in the linuxtv.org wiki. Nor does any of the other search
engines I've tried. It seems indexers are blocker by robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /hg/
Disallow: /git/
Disallow: /wiki/
Disallow: /irc/
Disallow: /irc/linuxtv/
Disallow: /irc/v4l/

I would think information in the wiki (such as on a DVB-C USB box I'm
researching,
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_CableStar_Combo_HD_CI )
should be findable by search engines!

Could the Disallow: /wiki/ line please be removed from robots.txt?

Cheers

Jan-Pascal


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Re: Is anybody working on TechniSat CableStar Combo HD CI USB device?

2010-06-07 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
On 06/07/2010 09:01 AM, Tobias Maier wrote:
 on the card is a Micronas DRX 3913 JKA2 which is a combined analog
 cable, DVB-C and DVB-T Demodulator.
 any chance this device is supported soon? Anything i can do to get
 this going?
   
Hi Tobias,

I'm in the market for a USB DVB-C device, and I've been looking into
this device. I've added it to the linuxtv.org wiki
(http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_CableStar_Combo_HD_CI).

It seems the Windows drivers for this device are very similar to those
of the (supported) Terratec S7 DVB-S device. No quite sure that to make
of that, though. The Micronas DRX series seems to 'evil' in that there
is only a closed-source driver and the manufacturer doesn't cooperate
with open source developers.

Jan-Pascal



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