TV on F7 with Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Aug 3 23:13:08 UTC 2007
Ingemar Nilsson writes:
> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:
>
>> He doesn't need to start there. Kernel 2.6.22 has the ivtv driver merged.
>
> But we still need to manually install the firmware, right?
Yes. That's all you need to do for the 250 and if you do not need the
userland ivtv tools. If you have a 350 and want to use its TV-Out, or if you
need ivtv's userland tools, you still need to install ivtv, which, for
kernel 2.6.22 contains just the tools and one 350-specific kernel module,
which didn't make it into 2.6.22 (but will probably go into 2.6.23).
Also note that ivtv has obtained a license from Hauppauge to freely
redistribute the firmware. It's a completely legal download. If Fedora
approached Hauppauge and worked out something similar for Fedora 8, that
would make for some publicity. A Linux distro being "PVR ready", out of the
box, would probably make the headlines in the usual rags; playing against
the GPL3 vs. Tivoization meme (even though you'll still need to grab
something like MythTV to make it work).
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