Pinnacle PCTV 200e: Difference between revisions

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== Current Status ==
== Current Status ==
As of August 2007 the driver is currently being written/debugged. The code itself is already working. It just needs some cleanup and testing before it can be submitted. Everyone who wants to help, can do so. Just contact the [http://www.linuxtv.org/lists.php LinuxTV mailing list], or contact the developer on the LinuxTV IRC (his nick: freez).
The code itself is already working. It just needs some cleanup and testing before it can be submitted. Everyone who wants to help, can do so. Just contact the [http://www.linuxtv.org/lists.php LinuxTV mailing list], or contact the developer [http://freeznet.ath.cx:81/public/contact.php directly].

Since the developers of this driver have virtually no time, no further development is being planned for now. So if you want the driver to be integrated into the official v4l-dvb tree before January 2008, you are welcome to do it yourself.




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* support the remote control
* support the remote control


=== Comments ===

'''Juan Garcia '''

Good news!!

Today 28-Jul-2007, after really heavily torturing the device, the device started to talk!

Now the channels can be tunned, TV can be watched and Radio can be listened with the PCTV 200e. All of these tested using Kaffeine as media player.

The driver still is in beta, but we hope soon will be posted in the link for sources below.
But it seems to be quite stable.

Have a try!

===Source Code===
The source code is available at mrec's site: ''(currently outdated.)''


[http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-pinnacle200e http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-pinnacle200e]


==Source Code==
To use the driver, you need to use the v4l-dvb tree based on mrec's developement and overwrite the files with the updated versions provided below. It's not very professional. Neither we are...


* [http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-pinnacle200e mrec's linuxtv-tree ''(currently outdated)'']
The update to the tree is here: (just overwrite the few files):
* [http://freeznet.ath.cx:81/files/pctv200e-juan-cleaned.zip updated files]


http://freeznet.ath.cx:81/files/pctv200e-update1.zip


===Stuff that might be useful===
* [http://freeznet.ath.cx:81/files/lsusb.log lsusb.log]


== Further Information ==
== Further Information ==

Revision as of 19:31, 16 September 2007

The Pinnacle PCTV 200e is a DVB-T highspeed USB 2.0 adapter with an detachable active antenna. It was first presented on the CeBIT 2005, and still available for about EUR 40,-.

The PCTV 200e is identical to the PCTV 260e, the PCTV 60e and the "PCTV DVB-T Pro USB".


Current Status

The code itself is already working. It just needs some cleanup and testing before it can be submitted. Everyone who wants to help, can do so. Just contact the LinuxTV mailing list, or contact the developer directly.

Since the developers of this driver have virtually no time, no further development is being planned for now. So if you want the driver to be integrated into the official v4l-dvb tree before January 2008, you are welcome to do it yourself.


ToDo List

  • handle debug output
  • integrate into official v4l tree
  • do intensive testing
  • support the remote control


Source Code

To use the driver, you need to use the v4l-dvb tree based on mrec's developement and overwrite the files with the updated versions provided below. It's not very professional. Neither we are...


Further Information