[pvrusb2] Maybe what a I really want is a Hauppauge HD PVR!?

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 15 May 2008, roger wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 22:44 -0500, Mike Isely wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 May 2008, roger wrote:
> > 
> > > http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
> > > 
> > > Any connectivity notes with Linux yet?
> > > 
> > > I'm guessing, this is going to be classified as an external hard drive
> > > with the PVR's operating system within the first partition of the hard
> > > drive and the storage on the second partition.
> > > 
> > > Might be an extremely interesting box if linux users can tinker with it.
> > > (Much like the famed Linksys WRT54G boxes ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > There has been A LOT of chatter on mythtv-users about this.  People are 
> > salivating over it.  Right now AFAIK, there is no Linux driver for it.  
> > This is basically an HD-capable hardware-encoding video capture device.  
> > I would expect a driver for it to look like another V4L device.  However 
> > I am unaware of any existing available Linux driver right now.
> ...
> >  This device probably doesn't fall under that 
> > umbrella.  (Not that I wouldn't like to take a real shot at this.  But 
> > we'll see what time will tell.)
> 
> I'll probably keep an eye on this myself.  If the device is at least
> recognized as an external drive when plugged in via USB, and I can at
> least grab CNN/FOXNEWS/History & DISC Channel stuff, I'll probably save
> my pennies and grab this device in the future.

Why would a video capture device show up as an external drive?  That 
makes no sense.


> 
> For mythtv devs to try to rewrite the firmware on this device, will
> probably take some work, as well as luck.  We can all pretty much assume
> there's some copyright mechanism employed on it to prevent HBO/Movie
> Channel infringements. But, on the other hand, there might be none since
> it's much easier to make a copy of a DVD vs. recording something over
> the air.
> 
> This will probably be the deciding factor, as well as most, as to
> whether I buy another PVR, or just off load everything to a device such
> as this, conserving electricty.
> 

Assume whatever you want.  I however won't speculate about that until 
I've seen some hard facts.

  -Mike


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