Pinnacle 880e Development?
Hi,
I thought I'd seen something on this list in the last couple of months about development for the 880e moving forward - according to the wiki support for this device is in "active development" - just wondering if there's been any progress and if there are any drivers available for testing yet?
Thanks,
Jim
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Quoted 11 lines · Jim Henderson
Hi,
I thought I'd seen something on this list in the last couple of months about development for the 880e moving forward - according to the wiki support for this device is in "active development" - just wondering if there's been any progress and if there are any drivers available for testing yet?
Thanks,
Jim
Hello Jim,
I was doing the 880e support, but got sidetracked with the HVR-950q analog support. In addition, the product got discontinued, I ran into licensing issues with ATI/AMD/Broadcom over the digital demodulator driver, and there were pretty much no other products out there that would have benefited from the saa7136 driver.
In other words, it didn't make much sense to put more effort into a discontinued product where the chipset supported needed didn't help any other products. My time is just better spent working on other things.
I've had a couple of people ask about support for this device recently. I pretty much had the analog video support working on all three inputs (tuner/composite/s-video), although the driver was nowhere near a state where it could be merged upstream. I considered making the tree available in its current state, but I wasn't sure how useful it would be to people without the digital support and I hadn't gotten the audio working yet.
If there were a developer experienced with v4l2 that had an active interest in doing the rest of the work, they can contact me and we might be able to work something out (although I cannot provide any of the datasheets since they are under NDA).
There just aren't enough hours in the day....
Devin
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Quoted 7 lines · Devin Heitmueller
I've had a couple of people ask about support for this device recently. I pretty much had the analog video support working on all three inputs (tuner/composite/s-video), although the driver was nowhere near a state where it could be merged upstream. I considered making the tree available in its current state, but I wasn't sure how useful it would be to people without the digital support and I hadn't gotten the audio working yet.
Thanks for the info, Devin - unfortunately I don't really have the skills or knowledge to do any work on the driver development (I wish I did) - as you have assessed, analog support isn't my primary interest because of the broadcast switch to ATSC here in the US.
If someone else picks up development, that'd be great and if I decide to keep the device (I have a son who has a Windows machine so it might be of use to him), then I'll be happy to help out with any testing that needs to be done.
Thanks again,
Jim
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