While Kernel Labs has been shipping a driver for the Hauppauge Colossus for a couple of years now, we have generally been focused entirely on the use cases that commercial parties care about, and these tend to be things like gStreamer, ffmpeg, and VLC. However in the last few days I finally got around to… Read More
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Hauppauge Media-MVPHD – A Platform Introduction
Sub $80 embedded Linux Development Box So you want a sub $80 embedded Linux system capable of playing back 1080p60 video, has wired ethernet, SATA controller onboard, USB2 ports, with a full cross compiler toolchain? Perhaps you’ve got an urge to get involved with digital media playback and Linux development? If so, read on. The… Read More
The cost of API deprecation…
After many years of the original V4L API being marked as deprecated, it finally went away in 2.6.38. This is one of those cases where the kernel developers concluded that V4L2 has been the standard for years, that V4L1 has been dead for a long while and it was finally safe to completely remove the… Read More