On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Bob Carpenter <rgc3679@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to write a driver using Ruby language for a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1150 card. > > I will be attaching an NTSC analog camera to the composite video input and want to stream the video across the internet to a client app that can display it. > > I've never written a PCI driver. > > The 1150 card will be attached to an Ubuntu 10.04 box. > > I'd welcome any ideas or advice to get started. > > Thanks, > > --Bob Several points: Under Linux, you don't write drivers in Ruby. You write them in C. The HVR-1150 already has a driver under Linux. You probably want to be writing a Ruby application, not a driver. You should probably start by reading the video4linux2 API documentation, which is the kernel API for interacting with tuner drivers. 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
