Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Devin Heitmueller wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Devin Heitmueller wrote: >>>>> Thanks for your help in getting this pulled in. The moral of this >>>>> story seems to have been that it's *way* easier to just buy the damn >>>>> thing than to add support for someone's device remotely. 92 emails >>>>> over three weeks to get support added versus 1 evening to get support >>>>> working right. :-) >>>> /me nods >>>> >>>> Better still, have someone give you a device for free in return for help. >>> Better still, have a vendor give you a device for free and make the >>> datasheets available in return for having their device supported. :-) >> Believe it or not but I'm starting to see that happen, although with some >> restrictions. > > Well, sign me up! I would love to help the efforts to expand device > support, but at this point I'm personally blocked by the fact that I > have already bought four tuners in the last year, combined with the > lack of actual documentation which results in it taking *way* longer > than it has to. > > Sure, I got all four of them to work which is progress, but it would > have gone much faster if the docs were available to me and I wasn't > laying out my own cash to buy tuners I have no personal use for. > > I've spent all this time to learn the codebase and I'd like to > leverage that knowledge more, but now I have to ask myself, "What am I > going to do with four tuners?" Hauppauge always have opensource projects that need help. If you're interested we can discuss off-line, email my Hauppauge address and we'll pick up on the discussion privately. Regards, - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
