Anyone interested porting DVB-C drivers/apps?

Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosunen at pp.nic.fi
Thu Oct 13 04:40:51 PDT 2005


John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Dieter wrote this message on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 17:26 +0100:
 >
>>Does the TechnoTrend-budget C-1500 do things that the
>>pcHDTV HD-3000 tuner card doesn't?  pcHDTV is the most
>>open/free source friendly tuner card vendor I found.
>>They provide source for Linux drivers, and recent
>>Linux kernels include a dvb driver for it.

TechnoTrend is for European markets (PAL), pcHDTV HD-3000 is for US?

> I'm willing to do most of the work to get a driver written for an ATSC
> HDTV receiver card, the only requirement is that I have full and complete
> specs and datasheets to the card and chips on that card (and of course
> a card)...

Philips-Semiconductors SAA7146 chip is well documented, but it don't 
work on ATSC broadcast? If there was only one standard in digital video 
broadcasting things would be easier...


Philips-Semiconductors SAA7146
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/SAA7146AH_V4.html

Philips-Semiconductors SAA7146 Data Sheet (pdf)
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/acrobat/datasheets/SAA7146A_2.pdf

A Linux device-driver for the saa7146 chipset by Philips-Semiconductors
http://www.mihu.de/linux/saa7146

Linuxtv.org Wiki
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


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