Re: Wanted: PVR Mentor

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:38:05PM +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:
> 
> Gregorio Gervasio Jr. wrote
> 
> I know that it's really long time since the original post was written.
> 
> 
> >m> Most Hauppauge WinTV cards are bt8x8 cards, which would work with 
> >m> this driver. However, the WinTV PVR series that the original poster 
> >m> referred to is unrelated. They use a real-time hardware MPEG2 
> >m> encoder and I don't think anybody's written a Linux driver for it yet 
> >m> (let alone one that would work on a non-Intel platform).
> >
> >        There's one under development (still early but some people are
> >already using it for MythTV):
> >
> >http://ivtv.sf.net/
> >
> >I don't know how difficult it would be to port to a PPC platform.
> 
> The driver is x86 only, depends quite heavilly on the x86 hardware and 
> isn't easilly rewritten for PPC. I had to experience this the hard way, 
> buy buying a PVR250 for my Pegasos, driver didn't compile, so I made some 
> hasty hacks, but no that didn't help, so PVR250 and PVR350 and any other 
> board using the same chip will not work on PPC untill someone starts a new 
> project to write an platform undependent driver or a special one for PPC.

Well, maybe someone will.

Now, there is also the freevo project, who is rumored to work on ppc, well, at
least i heard of one guy who had it working on Pegasos. And i think i have
seen a package sitting in the NEW queue :/

Friendly,

Sven Luther