Devin Heitmueller wrote: > I would probably advise against using a cx23885 based design for > analog under Linux right now. There is *some* analog support in the > driver, but it is not very mature and has a host of issues/bugs. > Also, there is currently no analog audio support in the driver, so if > you do not have an encoder then it will not work. > Well, I don't need audio, just video. A raw stream is everything I need, as it is displayed by mplayer directly. But you mean that this most probably wouldn't work as the analog support is not good enough for the time being? > In other words, even if all you did need was to add another PCI ID, > you would still be very likely to run into problems. > > We (KernelLabs) have a handful of patches that can eventually get into > the upstream driver, although right now progress is slow on that front > and you certainly shouldn't buy hardware based on the expectation that > the patches are forthcoming. > Well, would these patches help me to get the card working for my purpose (raw video stream)? I don't mind patching the driver. I am no developer, but applying a patch and compiling the driver I should manage. Otherwise do you know another mini-pci-express video capture card that is supported by the linux kernel? Thanks for your help Michael > Devin > -- 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
