On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Andrej Falout<andrej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Devin, thank you for your reply, please see below; > >> I did the work for the au0828 bridge, which is used in the US based >> HVR-950q tuner. I've also done alot of work on the em28xx bridge. > > I understand the problem but unfortunately this is of little use to > identify the product to purchase :-( > >>> All I need is a USB hybrid analog PAL/DVB-T TV with FM tuner. (I'm in Australia) >> >> That's a tough one. I am in the United States, so I'm not in a good >> position to recommend DVB-T tuners. To make matters worse, vendors >> often come out with new hardware designs with the same name as tuners >> that were previously supported under Linux, so even when a user looks >> in the LinuxTV wiki, there's a chance that the tuner he then goes out >> and buys will not be the same hardware. > > Well we can always return such devices, and send a "thank-you-not!" > email to the vendor in question. Maybe if they knew why are people > returning there products, they'll stop doing it and label there > products correctly depending on hardware built-in... > > So a list of known working devices would still be of great help.... > >> http://devinjh.livejournal.com/174527.html > > Please see my response, and my donation. Also see: > > http://www.smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_CAPTURE.html > > We know there are few million Linux boxes out there, but even for > 100.000, 0.4% means There are 400 Bt878 devices out there on Linux... > plus, look at the second, and fifth lines :-) > > I would doubt any vendor would ignore sale of few thousand of there > devices, especially the maker of the chip used in all of them. > > Just for example. And Smolts is a) a very new thing, b) disabled by > default so user must explicitly enable collection of data from > his/hers PC, c) still not included in all major distros. > > So regardless of absolute numbers, take a look at percentages - they > are the key for getting both vendor and user support. > > Cheers, > Andrej Falout > Hello Andrej, I took the ideas you put forth and put together a reply in the form of a blog post. http://devinjh.livejournal.com/ Cheers, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
