HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 24, 2003 @03:41AM from the build-your-own-pvr dept.

-tji writes "A new company, www.pchdtv.com, has just released the first digital TV receiver card for Linux. Along with the Linux drivers, they have also modified xine to support HD playback and add XvMC support for MPEG2 hardware acceleration with some video cards. This has great potential for integration into PVR apps, like freevo and mythtv. There is also another project to reverse engineer drivers for the Teralogic TL880 based DTV cards. The one active developer has done a great job, but could use some help."

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Are the drivers "O.S.S." or not? by Pope+Raymond+Lama · 2003-08-24 03:47 · Score: 0, Troll

When one talks in support for Linux for any hardware, it is always important to note if sad software is Free Software or not.

If not for ideological motives, which seen so secondary to most /. readers, one should note that a proprietary driver is all but ilegal if functioning with a GPLed Kernel.

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