On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote:
From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
Robert Schlabbach wrote:
AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either,
and the drivers you have now are the result of guessing and reverse
engineering. I don't see why this shouldn't be repeated for more
up-to-date designs than the old TT ones...
True - but soembody actually has to _do_ this ;-)
Apparently the interest in this isn't high enough, yet...
Maybe the incentives just aren't high enough - why bother reverse
engineering a design that's technically no improvement over the TT ones?
Now if there was a card that was actually a technical advance (e.g. a
DVB-S2 card, or a hybrid DVB-C/T card, or a card with a better suited PCI
bridge with a deep FIFO, or a card with a much quicker sync'ing
demodulator), I'm sure someone would get into reverse engineering it...
Exactly, that's the point.
IIRC some recent budget cards also require closed-source firmware,
which has to be taken from the windows driver.
This is a step in the wrong direction.
Get real. These cards are again Technotrend cards. Or do you know
another design which is using the TDA10045 demod?