Hi all, As Frank asked about the Hauppauge PVR card I thought I'd give you all an update. The new Hauppauge PVR card is a Bt878 with onboard MPEG 2 compressor and MPEG 2 decompressor hardware using the Kfir chipset. The Kfir MPEG2 chip does have linux drivers for it in the form of an MPEG2 encoder card available via www.linuxtv.org The Hauppauge PVR differs from www.linuxtv.org card in a few ways. It uses the same Kfir MPEG 2 chip, but Hauppauge have their own glue logic and interface asic. However, I have been talking to the right people in Hauppauge in the last few days and hopefully we can get all the information from them we need for a driver. If you use a Hauppauge WinTV PVR with the current bttv driver I've been told that video capture will work (with the Bt878 as normal) but you will not get any audio working as you need to initialise some of the new hardware to route the audio around the card. Of course the MPEG 2 chip will not work either. People interested in developing drivers for the PVR card should send me an email. Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde University Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. Also FreeBSD's bt848/bt878 driver maintainer. roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx roger@xxxxxxxxxxx
