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Reader: driver supports wide range of tuners

updated 09:55 am EST, Mon January 28, 2002

 
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MacNN reader Richard Sarkis writes in response to a report posted Friday: "There already exists a driver that support a surprisingly wide variety of TV tuner cards on Mac OS X. PCI based TV Tuner cards (Mac or PC versions) based on the Bt848, Bt848A, Bt849A, Bt878, Bt878a, Bt879 chipsets could potentially be used with the kext driver and viewer application on Mac OS X. The software source code can be found inside Apple's CVS repository under: [Darwin]/IO/Drivers/PCI/AppleBt8xx/"


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  1. imac.usr

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    Dude!

    If this means I can pick up a WinTV PCI card and have it work in a Mac, that's pretty sweet. If the driver also supported the capture capability, that'd be even cooler. Anybody know?

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    Sample driver

    This is really just sample drivers. Proof of concept if you will. they still need work to be fully usuable.

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    Sample driver

    This is really just sample drivers. Proof of concept if you will. they still need work to be fully usuable.

  1. Theosis

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    It's more than a sample.

    I disagree. The drivers work well with the mentioned decoding chipsets and various tuner modules. The drivers work, all that needs to be worked on, last I saw, was the TV application included inthe CVS project.

    IOW, it's far more than just a proof of concept project.

    Since the source code is already there and free, well, why don't you show us it what it can really be done?

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