On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:18:26AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > >> Summary: video digital demodulator driver > >> > >> Description: > >> A DMB-TH TV tuner card that is new and not yet on the market > >> needs a Linux driver written for the digital demodulator portion > >> of the card. It is a PCI card and I think the tuner, and analog > >> portion already are supported by Linux. The card isn't availble > >> yet, but will be soon, and some development can be done before > >> getting the hardware. The company involved wants to manage the > >> project and might require signing an NDA to get the specs for > >> the device (this is still not certian.) > >> > >> Estimated skills needed: > >> PCI video DVB driver experience. > >> This is not a good "first driver" type project. > >> > > > > Will pick it up > > > > quite a lot of experience with DVB . :-) > > > > Manu > > > > Although one question here. > > Are they expecting userspace support ie, MSC streams support ? Currently > under Linux we don't have any userspace support for MSC streams data > service, but just MPEG2 Transport Stream alone. > > ie currently we don't have any apps yet, that we can test the streams, > except for checking the MPEG2 Transport Stream. > > Or do they require more than a driver delivering a MPEG2 TS as per the > Linux DVB definition ? I really do not know, but I would imagine that they would not need any new userspace information. I can forward this request to the company if you like. thanks, greg k-h
