On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:42, Marcus Metzler wrote: > >Either you're not doing a very good job of trying to be funny, or you > > have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Hauppauge has actually > > been rather helpful with ivtv development, both on the software side > > and hardware side. > > They have done nothing for bttv, dvb or mvp. They may have done something > for ivtv, but considering that the drivers are always way behind the > latest hardware versions, that could not be too much.
Please understand that Hauppauge doesn't make the bulk of the chips actually on their cards. For the most part, those come from Philips and Conexant, both of whom have fairly tight NDAs for their latest and greatest stuff. > So they may have come around a little bit on one of their hardware > projects, but for most of their hardware the drivers were written > without any of their help. They're historically a Windows company. They're starting to see the light and help out with the Linux side of things, but their engineers know Windows, not Linux. They definitely are helping now though. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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