[pvrusb2] First Impressions with a Hauppauge WInTV HVR-950

[roger]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 15:46 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote:

> There *is* a digital atsc pvrusb2 out there already... It just isnt fully
> supported yet.
> 
> http://www.autumnwave.com/products/consumer/onair_creator.html

wew! ~$240 for this puppy.  And, depending on the upper range of my
750-1Ghz cpu's.  But, I'm guessing this is encase I'm watching live tv.
If I'm only recording, will probably be much like the pvrusb2 USB
activity.  

> Mike and I are already both working on this device.  Mike has found that the
> device works already without any significant modification to the pvrusb2 code,
> although we need to work in support for the cs53l32a adc in order to get audio
> in the mpeg stream.
> 
> For the digital side, I have an experimental driver:
> 
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/onair
> 

> You can expect even more of these devices to begin appearing soon, as per the
> new fcc regulations that state that no new television receiver equipment should
> be sold in the US without digital tuning capabilities.
> 
> 
> ... no need to complain, Roger ...  technology is in fact progressing ;-)

:-)


Oh, I'm guessing after April, there will probably be more of a supply.
If I get some time, I'll try to post some of this info on my website.

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Thu Mar 22 09:30:37 PDT 2007