New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500

[Norberto Meijome]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:32:28 +0200
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.

great! I have a shuttle box with a pvr150 running knoppmyth...but I rather try
freebsd :)

i'll let u know how it goes.

cheers,
B

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