Kernel Labs will be attending the National Association of Broadcasters Show 2015 conference, Apr 16-21 2016 in Las Vegas. If you’d like to meet the Kernel Labs staff then you can reach us via the Contact page. We’d be thrilled to chat with you.
Author: Steven Toth
CableExplorer – Evaluation Software
For those of you who are Digital TV enthusiasts, and have access to a Silicondust HDHomeRun prime cable receiver, we’ve been developing an ‘explorer’ tool for sometime. The software works with OS-X only, although Linux and Windows would be easy enough for us to deliver in the future. We’ve just published a free eval version,… Read More
Elgato Game Capture HD 60 Pro Teardown
Devin pointed out a new PCIe HD compression card the other day, the $200 Elgato Game Capture HD 60 Pro PCIe card. Amazon Link Video capture, video encoders, compressors, that’s our bread and butter here at Kernel Labs, needless to say we ordered the unit and promptly took it apart – for your viewing pleasure!… Read More
CES 2015
Kernel Labs will be attending the Consumer Electronics trade show, January 2015 in Las Vegas. If you’d like to meet the Kernel Labs staff then you can reach us via the Contact page above! We’d be thrilled to chat with you.
NAB 2013
Kernel Labs will be walking the floor at NAB 2013 this year. If you’d like to say hello or discuss any of the work we do here at Kernel Labs then we’d be thrilled to talk. Drop us a note via the support page.
ViewCast Osprey 845e Linux Drivers
ViewCast Osprey 845e Linux drivers – Released Today! The Osprey 845e is a quad channel SDI capture card, capable of capturing four channels of SDI video and audio concurrently. Resolutions from SD 480i to HD-3G 1080p60 are supported. If you need a SDI capture product that has an open source Linux driver and GStreamer support right out… Read More
Tivo Stream Teardown
If I’m honest then I have to say that my family use our quad tuner Tivo a lot more than we use our seven tuner MythTV backend. Yeah, we record a lot of TV in our house. When Tivo announced their iPad streaming solution back at CES 2012, I was quietly thrilled. I’m tired of… Read More
Elgato Game Capture HD Teardown
I noticed that Elgato recently launched their Game Capture HD USB2 HD encoder, Amazon link. I finally got around to ordering a unit and it arrived today, I opened the box and “it just fell out and broke open”. I think I may have voided my warranty. [lightbox title=”Elgato Game Capture HD Teardown” href=”/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2015.jpg”][/lightbox] Well,… Read More
HVR2200 Corrupt Image?
We’ve had a handful of reports cropping up related to HVR2200 model#89619 cards. With Ubuntu 12.04.1 the driver would attempt to load firmware from file NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw length 4019072 as defined in the saa7164-fw.c driver source. (Hint: it’s not really an Ubuntu error) Sep 13 07:50:56 dell kernel: [ 83.432854] saa7164_downloadimage() image corrupt Sep 13 07:50:56… Read More
Osprey 820e patches – merge has been requested
Good news. After our ViewCast Osprey 820 drivers were released earlier this year, we held off requesting an upstream merge knowing that we’d have to give them a whitespace cleanup, and we also wanted to gather public feedback prior to any formal peer review. After 3 months, no negative feedback and continued reliability during testing,… Read More