How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

[Peter Rasmussen <plr@udgaard.com>]

I looked around in the archives of:

	http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure
	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/

as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't apparent to me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is?


When inserting the USB dongle I get the following:

Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device 
using ehci_hcd and address 5
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, 
idVendor=1d19, idProduct=1102
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: 
Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: Product: Rtl2832UDVB
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 1
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 
1 choice

In Windows Vista it runs fine, showing TV using both MPEG2 and MPEG4 
encoded signals, but I would much rather run it with Linux.

I am also developing software for a living, but not this close to 
hardware, however I would like to help out the way I can.

Thanks,
Peter