Archives | January 2012

As of the release of Linux Kernel 3.1, Hauppauge's WinTV-Aero-m is fully supported for use with both ATSC and DVB-T, using the new MFE framework within dvb-usb to represent two frontends on a single DVB adapter. This makes the Aero-m the first semi-worldwide terrestrial digital television broadcast receiver to be supported under Linux. The device is built of two LG broadcast demodulators and a MaxLinear SoC. The first LG demodulator, LG DT3305, has been well supported in Linux for ATSC ever since I released it a few years ago. I've written a new driver to support the other LG demodulator,...

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After quite some time of talking about it, we finally got around to getting the analog support for the HVR-1850 submitted upstream. Support for all things analog is present and tested on all the various input types: the MPEG encoder, raw capture, analog audio. This patch series also includes a fix for a long-standing regression in the HVR-1800 as well. http://git.kernellabs.com/?p=stoth/cx23885-hvr1850-fixups.git Users are free to try it building from the above git tree, or they can wait a few days for it to be merged into the upstream linux-media tree. The HVR-1850 is a really nice...

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