[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 on sale... but Driver development halted?

[Patrick Oglesby]

> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:36:49 -0600
> From: Larry on the Dell Laptop <larry at foxgulch.com>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 on sale... but Driver
>        development halted?
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <49760BB1.5040907 at foxgulch.com>
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> I see newegg has this card on sale.   However,
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-2250 shows that "driver
> development" has been halted.
>
> Is that halt permanent?  Any hope that the SAA7164 chipset will be
> supported in Linux and Mythtv?  I searched this list and google'ed  but
> didn't see anything that looked encouraging.
>
> Larry
>

Larry, I recently pinged Hauppauge about the "upcoming" linux support
and this is the email response I got as of January 14th.  It's not
exactly promising.

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Hello,

Linux support for this device is still being worked on.  The engineer
working on the support has not given a firm date as to when this will
be available.  As things become available he posts them here:

http://linuxtv.org/repo/

Regards,
Ray Rodriguez
rayr at hauppauge.com
Technical Support
Hauppauge Computer Works
New York
http://www.hauppauge.com

For more online information please refer to:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_faq.html

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