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HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But are the drivers open source? I couldn't imagine running binary drivers on my Gentoo. Why can't these people just "get it" already?

    1. Re:Drivers by Oceanman · · Score: -1, Troll

      After you compile them, they'll be binary drivers, fucktard. Geez, can't you open source losers THINK?

  2. Are the drivers "O.S.S." or not? by Pope+Raymond+Lama · · 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.

    --
    -><- no .sig is good sig.
  3. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How far behind Windows XP are you now?

  4. CmdrTaco??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What POSSIBLE interest could YOU have in a Linux topic? Go back to your fancy, schmancy, OS X Powerbook and long for Steve Jobs's engorged dick in your mouth.

    And let the REAL Linux cognoscenti go on about their business.

    Fucking sell-out.

  5. I'll cut you nigga by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lunix this, Lunix that. Just buy XP and shut the fuck up.

    Goddamn commies.

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