Steven Toth wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: >> Steven Toth wrote: >>> Luc Brosens wrote: >>>> all, >>>> >>>> so I got the WinTV-CI from Hauppauge. Nice little thing, powered >>>> through the USB(2)-port. >>>> On the box, is says "Common-Interface extension over USB". >>> Cool. >>> >>>> There's software with it, but of course only XP and Vista... which >>>> are out of the question ;-) >>>> >>>> I'm contacting Hauppauge's tech support for specs, let's hope >>>> they're responsive. >>> They won't be able to help, I can - but not for a few weeks. >>> >>> I'm expecting to release public USB protocol information during Jan >>> 08 which would allow a GPL driver to be written. Right now I have >>> nothing to give you. >>> >>> If you feel adventurous, feel free to start now by reverse >>> engineering the protocol with a windows software USB sniffer, it >>> won't be wasted work. The device is Cypress FX2 based (which Linux >>> has lots of examples for) and it loads custom firmware (which Linux >>> has lots of examples of) apart from that I think the protocol is very >>> simple. >>> >>> How to integrate it with the kernel s/w demux would be an interesting >>> debate. >> >> In fact, you might not even need the swdemux at all, as the CA stack >> is all in userspace, not in kernel. All you would most probably need >> is an interface to read/write a TS to the USB interface. Maybe easier >> would be to read the TS off the dvr device, parse the TS and write the >> entire TS into a libusb interface >> or similar. > > That would work, but it's kind of a hack. Why not have a mechanism for > routing content directly into a cam and back into the s/w demux as > required? Although sounds nice to hear, In kernel copying in a TS to "another" device might be like shooting oneself in the foot. Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
