[mythtv-users] What's Hauppauge up to?

Myster Man Xsecrets at softhome.net
Sat Dec 6 20:30:48 EST 2003


I certainly won't argue with you on any account there. You'd think they
could at least hand out some documentation. They have a group of
programmers just dying to make a killer driver for free.

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 16:31, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 14:17, Myster Man wrote:
> > well actually they aren't providing support, but they did give knoppmyth
> > permision to distribute the binary drivers with their distrobution.
> 
> Yeah, but it just doesn't feel... equitable... I mean - the only thing
> that's being used from the binary driver set is the firmware.  And the
> ivtv project had to do its driver virtually from scratch.  So now
> Hauppauge gets to say:
> 
> "Here's a piece of software that showcases what our product can do.  Try
> it out!  Never mind the fact that we won't ever write a driver for the
> OS it runs on, nor will we give the good folks who are writing their own
> any hints on registers..."
> 
> It just doesn't feel... equitable... I understand the Windows software
> listed on the page.  At least the Windows SW authors had a
> supported-by-the-vendor driver to write to that supports all (?) the
> functions of the cards.  It would be nice to see Hauppauge, as a measure
> of good faith, give at least a little assistance to the ivtv (and
> ultimately mythtv) project(s).  Wouldn't that be good for some PR?
> 
> 	-I



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