From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 21:17:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF7B16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from feith1.FEITH.COM (feith1.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB2F43FDD for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@feith.com) Received: from jwlab.FEITH.COM (jwlab.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.16]) by feith1.FEITH.COM (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB15F1Jm008668 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:15:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from john@localhost) by jwlab.FEITH.COM (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.7) id hB15Erx26847 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:14:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:14:53 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle Message-Id: <200312010514.hB15Erx26847@jwlab.FEITH.COM> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Archived: cashew.FEITH.COM Subject: Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:17:54 -0000 I have written a FreeBSD 4.9 driver for the Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 MPEG encoder cards which I'm happy to donate to the FreeBSD project if there's interest. It has only been tested with a PVR-250 version 1 card connected to NTSC cable TV, however support for the PVR-250 version 2 and PVR-350 has been coded as well as support for PAL and FM. The driver can supply VCD, SVCD, or DVD MPEG program streams (selectable using BT848_SCAPAREA). Issues / Limitations: 1) Only the MPEG encoder is supported. RAW data streams are not supported, nor is using the MPEG decoder present on the PVR-350. 2) The firmware has to be extracted from the Microsoft Windows driver and linked into the FreeBSD driver. I'm unsure who to contact at Hauppauge to get permission to include the firmware as part of the general FreeBSD driver distribution. 3) Encoding the VBI information into the MPEG data stream is not currently supported. I need more information from someone on what the MPEG encoder wants from the video decoder in order to support this. -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Feith Systems | Voice: 1-215-646-8000 | Email: john@feith.com | | John Wehle | Fax: 1-215-540-5495 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------