Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:14:53 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle <john@feith.com> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 Driver Message-ID: <200312010514.hB15Erx26847@jwlab.FEITH.COM>
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I have written a FreeBSD 4.9 driver for the Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350
MPEG encoder cards which I'm happy to donate to the FreeBSD project
if there's interest. It has only been tested with a PVR-250 version
1 card connected to NTSC cable TV, however support for the PVR-250
version 2 and PVR-350 has been coded as well as support for PAL and
FM. The driver can supply VCD, SVCD, or DVD MPEG program streams
(selectable using BT848_SCAPAREA).
Issues / Limitations:
1) Only the MPEG encoder is supported. RAW data streams are
not supported, nor is using the MPEG decoder present on the
PVR-350.
2) The firmware has to be extracted from the Microsoft Windows
driver and linked into the FreeBSD driver. I'm unsure who
to contact at Hauppauge to get permission to include the
firmware as part of the general FreeBSD driver distribution.
3) Encoding the VBI information into the MPEG data stream is
not currently supported. I need more information from someone
on what the MPEG encoder wants from the video decoder in
order to support this.
-- John
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