[mythtv-users] pen Source Linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR 2 (1080p over HDMI) released!

[Mike Perkins]

On 23/08/15 14:35, eric wrote:
>  > I might be wrong, let the knowledgeable people speak up, but for me a
>  > driver creates a device like for instance /dev/video0, which will allow
>  > other applications, not just testApp, to access the hardware device and
>  > make their own capture.
>
> It is a user space driver, not a kernal v4l driver.
>
> It seems like it should be possible to use the test app with mythtv. I think
> there is a external recorder option in 0.28 that may work with this?? I am
> really interested in getting this working as my hdpvr 1 will sometimes decide to
> have a couple of days problems (lockups needing power cycling, 0 byte
> recordings, etc...) followed by many weeks of no issues....
> Does anyone know the status of 0.28? Is it stable enough to be used? or is the
> external recorder option something that can be back ported to 0.27?
>
What exactly do you mean by a "user space driver"? That sounds like a 
contradiction in terms, or perhaps a misuse of terminology.

What I imagine you mean is a server process that listens to a particular network 
port (or whatever) and translates the HDPVR2 protocol into something that a GUI 
program can make use of (and vice versa).

In a way this would be little different than, say, the way LIRC operates.

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Mike Perkins