Hi,
there used to be a thread in the German-speaking vdrportal about developing a driver for the http://www.allwell.tv/ EM8621L PCI card but the discussion seems to be dead as far as development.
How about the Odyssey development or evaluation kits from Sigma Designs themselves? http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/odyssey_features_specifications.htm has the specs. Sounds very promising for HDTV.
Anybody???
And while we're at it - the em8300 Hollywood cards appear to be able to decode a 720p MPEG2 stream. Does that mean if I convert a HDTV stream to a MPEG2 stream (and possibly rescale it from 1920x1080 to 1280x720), and throw the resulting stream at the card it will provide a proper picture? What CPU would be needed for this? Just curious. A full hardware decoder like the 8620 family is definitively the better solution, especially with a DVI out.
How about the EM8400 plugin? Any success?