[mythtv-users] HDTV

[Jason Schloer]

Does anyone know anything about this fusion hdtv card? I haven't found
anything aboutl inux drivers, but it is 878 based, so it should be
easier than most cards. It does do software decoding of the stream, but
would an mpeg decoder card potentially be able to help, that or an
accelerated graphics card. I noticed that the card says it needs lower
cpu requirements with a directX video card. Also since ATSC streams are
already compressed, if the stream could be pulled from the card, would
it be very difficult to add to myth? Forgiev me for my ignorance,I'm
just looking for the mythical conversion box everyone has talked
about.....that handles HDTV as well.


Jason Schloer
Tango Enterprises, Inc.
11150 Sunset Hills Rd., #250
Reston, VA 20190
Tel: 703-964-4000
Fax: 703-964-4600


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Brian Foddy
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:12 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV

There are a few posibilities, some you found below.  But certainly 
nothing in the average consumers budget anywhere close to functional.
What's really needed is for one of the current HD tuner card makers
to release specs to allow others to write  a good driver.  However
I think the biggest problem is these makers don't even own the rights
to their chipsets, so even if they wanted to release these specs,
they can't.  Take the Hauppauge HDTV card, if they could release
the specs so a good driver could be written, I bet they would have
sales they never would believe (just look how the PVR250 is 
catching on with a RE driver).  But from what I've heard,
there was a NDA required to get rights to the chipset.

When will companies wake up??

Brian


On Fri, 9 May 2003, Ben Bucksch wrote:

> Joe Villari wrote:
> 
> > My understanding that HDTV capture cards don't have linux supported 
> > drivers.
> 
> I think that's the only real way, if you want to take advantage of
HDTV. 
> (Unless there are settopboxes which give you the MPEG2 data stream via
a 
> computer interface, but i haven't seen one yet.) Search on the net for

> "HDTV Linux", A few links I found with a quick search:
> 
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-dvb@convergence.de/msg00028.html>
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/gnuradio.html> (wild, indeed)
> <http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209915>
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxhdtv> (no code, no website, one 
> developer - seems useless)
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=+site:www.mail-archive.com+HDTV+linux>
> 
> 
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