Hello, On Thursday 13 December 2001 10:11, you wrote: > Hi Orion, > > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 01:13, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > Does anyone know what chipset is used in the Hauppauge WinTV PVR card? > > Any chance of using it with Linux to do MPEG compression? > > I think the people on the general video4linux mailinglist > (video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx) will know more about these cards :-) >From an article found at linuxvideo.org: : I did find one consumer true MPEG encoder; the Hauppage WinTV PVR card : (http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/video/reviews/pvr.html). It's a BT878 : with a Kfir encoder chip on board. Sounds good? It's not. It's a Kfir1 : chip, not the old Kfir chip that the Linux driver supports. There's a guy : working on a driver (http://pvr.sourceforge.net) but he doesn't seemed to : have gotten very far. There seems to be a new maintainer, though. Latest update was on November 14 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvr/ Hmm. A friend of mine is contemplating buying such a card; I might be able to borrow it from him, *if* I can get proper specs of that kfir01 chip. - Nemosoft
