make a pvr

[John-Mark Gurney]

Dieter wrote this message on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:36 +0000:
> The only DTV card I have found with any sort of Unix driver
> is the HD-3000.  There are drivers with source for Linux,
> there was talk awhile back of doing a BSD driver, I don't
> know if that has gotten anywhere?

The Linux dtv project supports a few more than just the HD-3000...
It supports cards like the one I am working on, which is the DVIco's
FusionHDTV 5 Lite card....

> The HD-3000 card is supposed to do pretty much any format,
> digital or analog (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, ATSC, ...).  To record
> a digital station you just dd the data from a device node,
> nearly no CPU usage.  

I looked at the HD-3000 and it was too expensive, and they weren't any
more helpful than the company in getting specs for the chips used on
the card...

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