On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Robert Isaacs wrote: > Are any mpeg-2 tv tuners with hardware encoders supported in linux? I > have read about development efforts so far, but have been unable to > determine which cards are being referenced (usually a chip is > referenced), and havent been able to tell how far along the development > is. My project (IvyTV) is working on a driver for iTVC15 based boards. These are commonly available as the Hauppauge PVR-350 and older 250's but *not* the PVR-PCI boards (those are kfir based)[1]. Newer 250's are rumored to be CX23416 (iTVC16) based (encode only, much cooler). Not sure if what we're doing will be compatible with that part. I do have some Windows driver source that claims '16 compatibility so I may be able to figure out the differences. (::shiver:: Windows driver code ::shiver::) We are very early in our development and not even v4l2 (or dvb) compliant although I suppose you could do something like: # cat /dev/ivtv0 | mplayer > What I want to know is if any of these cards are usable in linux yet. > Meaning, do any work with xawtv and correctly capture using the mpeg2 > hardware encoder? I doubt xawtv will support our mpeg stream, but some of the docs I have give the sense that a raw (YUV) stream may be possible. > Robert John [1] I do have access to a PVR-PCI for purposes of getting the kfir driver functional for that board. Maybe when the startup noise from ivtv subsides. :)
