Hi Manu, 2010/1/14 Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx>: > Well, the SAA716x is only the PCI Express interface. There is no video > capture involved in there with the STi7109. It is a full fledged DVB > STB SOC. > > OSD is handled by the STi7109 on that STB. > http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/bd/11660/sti7109.pdf > > Though it is not complete, that driver, it still does handle it, > through the firmware interface. These are the kind of devices that you > find on a DVB STB, i must say. > > On a DVB STB, what happens is that you load a vendor specific firmware > on the SOC. The SOC is just issued the firmware commands, that's how a > STB works in principle. A DVB STB can be considered to have 2 outputs, > ie if you use it as a PC card, you can output the whole thing to your > PC monitor, or output it to a TV set. But in the case of the STB, you > have a TV output alone. > I never know about use of stb7109 in any PCI card. It is surprise to me. Interesting what firmware is loaded to stb7109. Is it STM's proprietary os21 or even linux? /Honza -- 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
