Hello
is there any good news about the current status of Extension HD PCI from ReelMultimedia ? Is there a full support for 1080p/1080i by hdmi and YUV output ? What about deinterlacing - is it work fine ?
Igor
Bball posted on the DVBN forums that he got it working and it works good. Has a few glitches that can be fixed with new firmware.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor" goga777@bk.ru To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:22 AM Subject: [vdr] Extension HD PCI card from ReelMultimedia - what's new ?
Hello
is there any good news about the current status of Extension HD PCI from
ReelMultimedia ?
Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
Bball posted on the DVBN forums that he got it working and it works good. Has a few glitches that can be fixed with new firmware.
Is this card still being manufactured, considering that Micronas USA closed down and the Decypher has been EOL'd ?
Regards, Manu
No idea. didn't know. I hope not.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Manu Abraham" abraham.manu@gmail.com To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] Extension HD PCI card from ReelMultimedia - what's new ?
Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
Bball posted on the DVBN forums that he got it working and it works
good.
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Is this card still being manufactured, considering that Micronas USA closed down and the Decypher has been EOL'd ?
If Micronas USA was closed down, is it means that other mpeg2/h.264 decoder-chips from Micronas are not producing currently ?
Igor
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:45:06PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
Is this card still being manufactured, considering that Micronas USA closed down and the Decypher has been EOL'd ?
There are enough chips available...
Georg Acher wrote:
What about support from Micronas for the chip, with regards to firmware fixes etc ?
What i heard was that they took everything back from the Linux driver developer for shredding after announcing closure. Yet Micronas was forwarding support requests to him after taking back all sources/info.
A pity that so much efforts put in and one fine day it has just vaporized.
Regards, Manu
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:52:43PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
No support anymore. But most of the issues have been resolved for us. Also the RMM card uses/needs only a small portion of the chip features. The PCI communication is based on my shared memory driver with almost no kernel dependencies, so we have no problems with future kernels.
The people who designed a complete STB with a standalone DeCypher have much more trouble now...
Damagers...
Georg Acher wrote:
Ah, i see. As long as it works as expected, things do look bright.
The people who designed a complete STB with a standalone DeCypher have much more trouble now...
True.
That's quite a significant loss in investment for a STB manufacturer.
(Though it is not the first time that a vendor sees such things. At some point of time the SAA716x PCIe chips were also in the same condition, but somehow things got into a better shape, but vendors still afraid of the murky waters)
At least they could have revived it by just keeping the development stuff with the Linux developer. Pity, that they took an insane turn.
Regards, Manu
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Georg Acher acher@in.tum.de wrote:
Yes but available chips doesn't mean they have been purchased and the card is still being produced so the question still remains.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 01:12:28PM -0700, VDR User wrote:
The card is not a standalone product, but the video output for the Reelbox Avantgarde. As long as this box is being manufactured, the card is also produced. And the Avantgarde is sold quite successfully...
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:50:41PM +0300, Igor wrote:
The main usage is in the Avantgarde. You can buy it as a standalone card in the shop, but this is only a side effect being a regular PCI card.
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