[mythtv-users] CielPlus Sky Digibox (UK) Addon decoder card.

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 17 08:10:50 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 01:33 +0200, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Saturday 14 July 2007 20:38:52 Paul Harrison wrote:
> > Cielplus wrote:
> > > Some time ago a few of you were discussing the prospect of getting
> > > Cielplus working with MythTV and if you could lay your hands on a
> > > card and SKY box.
> >
> > I'm surprised this hasn't provoked a bigger response!.
> 
> The amount of MythTV developers/users with a Sky abo seems to be 
> limited.
> 
> > Having this work in Myth would be really cool but without a working
> > kernel driver I think its going to be a difficult task.
> >
> > I _would_ like to see the sample code if that's possible to see
> > exactly what the card is capable of and how it's been implemented. If
> > I can figure out how the usb driver should be implemented them maybe
> > I will take a look at it but no promises, I'm no kernel hacker :-)
> 
> Writing USB-Kernel drivers is not that complicated but depending on the 
> hardware capabilities a libusb based userspace driver might be simpler 
> (no need to design a kernel - userspace interface).

Eh? There's no need to design one. We have V4L2 already.

That's the whole point of a kernel driver. It makes it easy for other
projects to use the driver immediately as there's a defined interface.

Alan.



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