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. Regards, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
