Re: Hauppage WinTV-HVR-900H

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:24:57 +0200
> Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>   
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Simon Kenyon <simon@koala.ie> wrote:
>>     
>>> Markus Rechberger wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Available from 20th Oct on so in 11 days. There are not many
>>>> competitive devices (none) available for
>>>> linux which deliver such support. On the other side it's not kernel
>>>> based either, it's entirely in userspace.
>>>> It's also  entirely supported by all participating companies.
>>>>         
>>> this is a mailing list for the open source dvb drivers
>>> you are talking about a closed source solution
>>> what does your solution have to do with linuxtv.org?
>>>
>>>       
>> I see linux-media, you can find the sources of a patched tvtime version on the
>> website.
>> It shows an alternative way how to integrate usb chipsolutions in linux.
>> Aside of that the official DVB(3/5)/V4L(1/2) API has been reviewed
>> through our work and bugreports have been
>> submitted to various places (linux media, some linux distributions).
>> It integrates
>> flawlessly and helps to improve the overall media support with linux.
>>
>> The posting was pointing out to Ali's email that he was looking
>> for a working analog TV solution for France. He has bought this
>> Pinnacle device 3 years ago,
>> the vendor does not care about support for it.
>> We provide solutions which work within a few seconds, nevermind what
>> distribution.
>>     
>
> Your business is so bad that you can't even pay to an adds on some magazine, for
> you to spam the open source mailing lists as a desperate trial to sell a single
> unit of your product?
>
> Please stop spamming.
>   

The answer was responsive to the question, a couple of links to software 
which might serve. I would think your going off about it was further 
off-topic, it certainly didn't help the O.P. any. When someone ends a 
question with "please help" I would assume that any answer would be 
better than "we're working on it." Answering an on-topic question with a 
short list of links is hardly "spamming" or even advertising, it's 
called being polite and helpful.

I would rather run commercial software on Linux that open source on 
Windows, thanks, if those are the choices.

After several months of looking I have yet to find any video app that a 
typical office worker can use. Something no more complex than xawtv, 
which has been running fine on FC4 and FC6 for these folks. I would 
certainly consider a commercial solution rather than have them go back 
to the dark side of the force and Windows-7.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence.