Subject: Re: NetBSD as a media center
To: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/13/2004 20:06:35
I know the original author of IVTV (the linux pvr-250/350 driver) and
could probably convince him to release an old (entirely his work I
*think*) version of the driver under the BSD license.

If someone is willing to work on porting it, I can ask him about it.

-Andrew


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:33:24 -0500, David Maxwell <david@vex.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004, antonio larripa wrote:
> > It will be nice to port mythtv to NetBSD.
> > Like the guys from
> > http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
> > I use this "linux distro @home" and i am very happy
> > with it, but nothing will make me happier that run it
> > on Net.
> 
> I'd like to have this working as well.
> 
> One of the holdups I percieve is that we don't have a driver for the
> hardware MPEG cards - PVR-250 (etc) yet. Myth is less interesting to me
> with software encoding.
> 
> --
> David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
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> half the staff to run it.
>                                               - Tomas T. Peiser, CET
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