[mythtv-users] Current wisdom on PVR-150/250/350/500

Jeff Simpson jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu
Mon Apr 17 03:56:55 UTC 2006


> In truth, Hauppauge isn't quite as bad as this makes them sound.
> They've been /very/ forthcoming with information /they own/ about their
> cards.  Unfortunately, they build their cards from components made by
> other manufacturers whose NDA's prevent Hauppauge from releasing
> information about those components and their internal workings.
>
> Mike

Oh, ok, I take that back, then. When I was wrestling with the "my
PVR-350 output is green" problem back when I guess I was one of the
first people with the revision 991 of the card, I asked them
personally for a register map, so that I wouldn't have to randomly
poke values in there and hope that I didn't break anything. They said
"no", so I ended up having to reverse-engineer to the best of my
ability what those registers were for. It worked, but I would have
much preferred a binary driver for it all said and done.

 - Jeff


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