NAB 2016 Conference

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.

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

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