On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Devin Heitmueller >> <devin.heitmueller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> For those of you waiting for Linux support for the Pinnacle 80e, I >>> have some bad news: it's not going to happen. >>> >>> After investing over 100 hours doing the driver work, adding support >>> for the Empia em2874, integrating with the Linux tda18271 driver, >>> incorporating the Micronas drx reference driver source, and doing all >>> the testing, Micronas has effectively killed the project. They >>> decided that their intellectual property was too valuable to make >>> available their reference driver code in source code form. Even >>> worse, because I've seen the sources I am effectively prevented from >>> writing any sort of reverse engineered driver for the drx-j. >>> >> >> Not so fast, even though I wasn't involved at knocking this down. >> We have a custom player now which is capable of directly interfacing the >> I2C chips from those devices. Another feature is that it supports all the >> features of those devices, there won't be any need of different applications >> anymore. There's also the thought about publishing an SDK, most applications >> have problems of detecting all corresponding devicenodes which are required >> for those devices anyway. i2c-dev is an already available and accepted >> kernel interface >> to userland just as usbfs is. > > Hello Markus, > > Yeah, I saw the screenshots for Empia eeeTV on your website a few days > ago - it looks like a neat application and there is certainly a place > for a well written application to watch TV. > > For those of you not familiar, Markus is working on his own dedicated > TV watching application for Linux and BSD: > http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/ISDB-T > > I agree that it is certainly true that a closed-source application > could be used with the Pinnacle 80e (since such application would be > able to accommodate the Micronas binary-only licensing), however this > approach does restrict access to those devices to that specific > application and is not a more general solution that would work with > whatever application the user wants to use (such as MythTV, Kaffeine, > mplayer, etc). > > So for many people, this could be a viable approach. > that for the plan of the SDK exists, which can easily be adapted. Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
