[mythtv-users] Sigma NetStream 2000

Jim Paris jim at jtan.com
Fri Sep 5 14:24:59 EDT 2003


>             These seem to have some Linux support, has anyone tried
> them?  www.compgeeks.com <http://www.compgeeks.com/>  has them for $35
> right now.  Thought it might go well with my pvr-250?

Extremely nice cards with poor software support.  The primary API
driver is available for Linux but closed source, and they never became
popular because of their high price, so I don't think there have been
any efforts to reverse engineer or otherwise figure out the hardware.

I have a pair of these that I was playing with for a job.  They cost
something like $500 each when they were bought.  I managed to get them
to play DVDs very nicely (through their software) but didn't get much
further than that.

Maybe now that they're $35 (!) some people will buy them up and we'll
start to see some sweet software support.  But I wouldn't bet on it..

-jim


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