[mythtv-users] What's Hauppauge up to?

orv orv at no-comply.com
Sat Dec 6 20:29:33 EST 2003


Alcatel do a similar thing with their adsl modem driver. It sucks, but the
linux community still managed to develop their own driver from scratch. The
linux driver rocks, plus it runs on BSD, linux & mac.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ian Forde
Sent: 06 December 2003 22:31
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What's Hauppauge up to?

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 14:17, Myster Man wrote:
> well actually they aren't providing support, but they did give 
> knoppmyth permision to distribute the binary drivers with their
distrobution.

Yeah, but it just doesn't feel... equitable... I mean - the only thing
that's being used from the binary driver set is the firmware.  And the ivtv
project had to do its driver virtually from scratch.  So now Hauppauge gets
to say:

"Here's a piece of software that showcases what our product can do.  Try it
out!  Never mind the fact that we won't ever write a driver for the OS it
runs on, nor will we give the good folks who are writing their own any hints
on registers..."

It just doesn't feel... equitable... I understand the Windows software
listed on the page.  At least the Windows SW authors had a
supported-by-the-vendor driver to write to that supports all (?) the
functions of the cards.  It would be nice to see Hauppauge, as a measure of
good faith, give at least a little assistance to the ivtv (and ultimately
mythtv) project(s).  Wouldn't that be good for some PR?

	-I
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                       CYTBeN, Inc.
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