Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:01:54 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone interested porting DVB-C drivers/apps? Message-ID: <20051013020154.GK12298@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <200510130026.AAA11765@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <200510130026.AAA11765@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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Dieter wrote this message on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 17:26 +0100: > > I would be interested to donate dvb-c card to someone willing port > > drivers (and applications) for FreeBSD. Perhaps others like to join, > > there has been linux drivers available quite some time. > > > > http://www.technotrend.de/english/products/pcproducts3-1.html > > > > Maybe TechnoTrend-budget C-1500 or similar. > > Does the TechnoTrend-budget C-1500 do things that the > pcHDTV HD-3000 tuner card doesn't? pcHDTV is the most > open/free source friendly tuner card vendor I found. > They provide source for Linux drivers, and recent > Linux kernels include a dvb driver for it. I've been looking for an inexpensive ATSC receiver that has freely available datasheets and specs (i.e. datasheets that you don't have to contact a company employee to get, since I've been having soo much trouble with ATI).. and I haven't found one... I've looked at the pcHDTV, besides being over priced, the CX23883 docs aren't publicly available on Conexant's website, nor does www.pcHDTV.com provide you with a download of the datasheets... You'd think that with how much they want to support open source they'd provide these for d/l... I've looked at DVico's FusionHDTV 5 Lite (which you can pick up for $99), but even though they supposedly provided information to write a Linux driver, when I asked them for the specs, all they did was direct me to the Linux driver's web site and said come back if you have questions... Well, I did have a simple question, which was for specs and datasheets, if only they had answered it.. the site they pointed me to did not have anything relating to the specs of the card... I did find a datasheet sheet for the Fusion878 chip, but I couldn't find any specs on the LG tuner and decoder module (plus the 878 spec sheet contained no information on how to receive digital info over the video bus, which they said was the same as analog)... Sorry if I sound a bit sore, but I've been trying to find a card in the $100-$150 range (I'd like two) for the last month or two that is open enough to be able to write a driver for, and haven't found anything yet... (Besides me being busy with other projects and work, which means I haven't had that much time to put into looking for one)... I'm willing to do most of the work to get a driver written for an ATSC HDTV receiver card, the only requirement is that I have full and complete specs and datasheets to the card and chips on that card (and of course a card)... Good luck... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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