On 29 Jun 2007, at 10:35, Georg Acher wrote:

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:45:12PM -0700, Jeremy Jones wrote:

Is there any information regarding availability or pricing on the HDTV PCI
card ? I have been waiting a long time for an HD MPEG-2/4 decoder with HDMI
and this sounds promising :-)

Availability not earlier than August/September, the price isn't fixed yet.

There is other hardware that does mpeg2/4/h.264 decoding, the lacking piece is always proper open source drivers.

Do you have any links/info for such cards ?

Will this hardware have open source drivers / open specifications?

I checked out the latest Reelbox testing svn code and browsed the code to see if it supports this device. I didn't look too thoroughly but it appears the reelbox-0.9.0 plugin does support it. It looks like communication to the kernel space driver is done through shared memory and I did see some kernel space code to create this shared memory device (/dev/hdshmem). I'm sure there is a closed source firmware or kernel module that is also used but since Reelbox is based on vdr this shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Brian