[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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