[linux-dvb] Re: ATSC?

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

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




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