Billy Biggs wrote:
Matt G. (matt_g_@xxxxxxxxxxx):
Even if manufacturers provided this information, what linux
developer could a) afford the cards, or b) have equipment to [...]
I'd drop a grand on a used piece, like a digisuite card, if I had
enough information to write a driver for it. I personally know the
designer of all the Media100 hardware (I almost went to work there),
so if I could score one of their cards, I should be able to get enough
info to write a driver.
That would be cool, I guess, but I would be scared you would be the
only user.
I programmed a digisuite LE a year ago, doing a roulette game for
broadcast television. It was painful programming under vc++ & some
directshow like api. Most of these systems would benefit tremendously of
running under linux. The problem is most likely that matrox doesn't want
to reveal anything about the low level details of these cards. They do
have some wonderful pieces of mpeg2 / DVI encoders & decoders.
And believe me, doing an update at vsync is not a problem with these
babies. ;)
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-Torgeir
