Greg KH wrote: > 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. Yeah, that would be great. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Thanks, Manu
