From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.5]:38675 "EHLO smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752783AbZLIJe1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 04:34:27 -0500 Received: from [172.23.170.147] (helo=anti-virus03-10) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1NIIwG-0001TP-Ey for linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:34:28 +0000 Received: from [62.31.89.131] (helo=esdelle.homelinux.org) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1NIIwF-0000jL-Rx for linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:34:27 +0000 Message-ID: <4B1F6F1F.7010900@esdelle.co.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:34:23 +0000 From: Rob Beard MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukasz Sokol CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-dvb@linuxtv.org Subject: Re: WinTV HVR-900 USB (B3C0) References: <4B1E8E4D.9010101@esdelle.co.uk> <4B1F6AE3.20303@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B1F6AE3.20303@yahoo.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/12/2009 09:16, Lukasz Sokol wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I've borrowed a WinTV HVR-900 USB stick from a friend of mine to see if >> I can get any reception in my area before forking out for one however >> I've run in to a couple of problems and wondered if anyone had used one >> of these sticks? >> >> > [snip] > >> I just wondered if anyone else had one of these sticks actually working >> under Ubuntu 9.10? (I'm running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae). >> >> Rob >> >> > > Hi Rob, > this device uses empia chips. > > I have a similar situation with Pinnacle Hybrid Pro 330e (yes, 3_3_0e) : the only > driver that works (and was great at it) was Markus Rechberger's em28xx-new project. > (my device has cx88 tuner IIRC). The em28xx-new project had some modifications to > some tuner drivers too. They were based both on RE and documentation for which > Markus had NDA's signed (a vague recollection of past googling). > > The mainline kernel unfortunately does not support it out of the box, and it is not only > about the firmware you have to download; There is something severely nonfunctional. > > Why am I writing in past tense ? > This driver (em28xx-new) has recently been abandoned, and its author went proprietary. > I was using a ubuntu package prepared by some ubuntu user, named gborzi. > Unfortunately the package cannot apply to more recent kernels any more. > The last kernel it worked with, was 2.6.27-14 (Ubuntu terminology) and I'm stuck with it. > > I have emailed Markus but he seems to have lost any interest in the em28xx-new... > can't blame him though, he gave his reasons, some of them unfortunately true. > > To v4l developers : as it is the case now that we can consider em28xx-new abandonware, > could somebody see, what got devices like ours working in his driver, and push it to > mainline, please ? Just the DVB support would be fine... > > To Markus : the above is not a call to _steal_your_code_ but merely to somebody have > a look and modify the mainline drivers so it could support A 5 YEAR OLD DEVICE like mine. > People could employ a 'clean room' like in alternative to Broadcom (b43) development. > > At least mine, is a 5 YEARS OLD design (bought in 2006). > On my computer, which was middle spec 5 years ago, I've always had problems with this device > under Windows (XP) : 100% CPU on max frequency (1.6GHz) all the time, when playing. > Under Linux, stock Ubuntu 8.10 Kaffeine, and em28xx-new, it is max 30% CPU at lowest freq (800MHz)). > > Stock em28xx driver only supports analog (with no sound under stock tvtime, supposedly patched tvtime required). > > el es > Thanks for the heads up, I think I'll have a look and see what else is available out there then, luckily I only borrowed it to test if it would work. Regards, Rob