leg818

原帖由 daitau 於 12-11-2008 17:59 發表
2.6.28 contains patches that should support some DMB USB TV sticks.

http://lwn.net/Articles/302754/

There are new drivers for  ... Magic-Pro DMB-TH tuners..

2.6.28? is it the linux kernel version?
does it mean that we are getting linux native support?

corvus

原帖由 toylet 於 2008-11-12 19:32 發表


Do I need open those USB sticks to find the chip being used and hence the right driver?

Many TV sticks use 8GL5. You can find out the model by installing the driver in Windows (I think you still have one at home?).

lazyfai

But 8GL5 is just one of the many components in the USB TV tuner, we still need to add some initialization code and/or firmware to activate the decoder.
And most importantly, we need to get back the data from the decoder, this part is different in different models/brands as there is no open standard yet...

foobar

The codes in the patch http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20080809/6b37436c/attachment-0002.txt looks fairy generic though (it only setup the demodulator chip, doesn't seem to load any "firmware"... The only part specific parameters it pass seems to related to the MXL5005S tuner.)   Hope it works with my USB tuner stick la (which is also a 8GL5 device but not MagicPro, I dunno which tuner it used though)

[ 本帖最後由 foobar 於 2008-11-13 18:56 編輯 ]