Hauppauge HD PVR Linux driver released - alpha quality

Posted by kobski
June 14, 2008

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The first release of the Linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR is now available.

MythTV is still not ready to use the driver, but work is getting done.

Snipped from the announcement:

I’m pleased to announce the immediately available of a mercurial repository for the Haupauge HD PVR.

The repository is at http://hg.jannau.net/hdpvr/. Follow the howto at http://linuxtv.org/repo/ but use hg clone http://hg.jannau.net/hdpvr/ instead of http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb.

The driver is currently at most alpha quality and tested only with v4l2-ctl and cat /dev/video0. Other applications might fail in interesting ways.

I’ve compiled the driver only with kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25. A tester reported success on 2.6.22.

TODO:

  • extend V4L MPEG encoding api (atm only add mpeg4 AVC and AAC as formats)
  • test IR support and merge it into the official repo
  • improve buffer management, especially make it fault-tolerant
  • add missing device options (iirc only sharpness and chroma/luma filters)
  • test with other v4l application and fix issues

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  3. Linux 2.6.22 Released
  4. NVIDIA 173.08 driver released

HDTV, Hardware, Linux, MythTV

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