New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500

[Hans Nieser]

usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> i just want to make people aware that now there is a driver for the
> Hauppauge PVR150 and PVR500 cards ( multimedia/pvrxxx ).
> 
> it is based on the pvr250 port and some linuxtv.org code.
> 
> features and missing features:
> - stable
> - supports more than 1 card in a single machine
> - runs on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
> - partial v4l(2) interface, currently only tested with MythTV 0.18-fixes
> - tuner input and composite input
> - no radio support yet
> - no ir support yet
> 
> i am currently working on vbi support. if someone has a pvr250 and a
> pvr150/500, i would be interested in making this driver support
> 150+250+500. it should not be too hard.
> 
> any feedback is welcome.
> 

Sweet! I happen to have a PVR150 (MCE edition, does this driver actually
support the MCE edition as well?) lying around somewhere that I was hoping
to be able to put in a FreeBSD box one day and see if I could turn it into
some kind of multi media centre.. thingy