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

jr jraymyth at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 20:50:15 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Patrick Oglesby <octoberblu3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> -----
>
> 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
>
> Please include previous correspondence when replying.
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I believe that he is working on a different project at the moment.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1081590
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1081590&page=15


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