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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:51:51AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I recently purchased a USB HD device from Amazon.com (Hauppauge). As I > looked around, some devices claimed to be linux-friendly (like the one I > got). That's a little silly, because either a device complies with USB Mass Storage Spec or it doesn't. Linux has an appropriate generic driver for that. > I then began to wonder what makes the device linux-friendly if its > sole function is as a tv tuner. I know a device driver would need to > talk to it. I then wondered if any usb tv tuner device might work? No. There's no universal standard for that driver, although there is a Linux spec for the software API: Video For Linux, aka V4L (and really, V4L2). > Kind of line "Windows" and "Mac" friendly for some peripherals only if > they include software for those platforms, but if I have software that can > do the same, I can sometimes make something "Mac"-only work on a PC, and > vice-versa. www.linux-usb.org is a good reference. There are a few USB TV tuners that work: http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Em2820 http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware -dsr- -- Every time you give up a right, the terrorists win. http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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