Marcus Overhagen has decided to add his DVB-T project to the Haiku source tree, as it already can run on Haiku and not only BeOS R5. Compared to BeOS, Haiku still lack a live TV input. BeOS R5 included a driver for BT878 analogous TV, Haiku as of today hasn't one. As Marcus doesn't have any analogous TV anymore, he will not be able to change that.

The DVB-T sources includies driver, media-add-on and a basic TV application. The audio and video codecs that Marcus used with BeOS and ZETA will not be included, simply cause Haiku allready has all the required codecs. This means some porting work after the initial checkin, to utilize the Haiku media kit in the way it's meant to be used. DVB will then use the Haiku codecs by means of the BMediaDecoder class.

Sad thing for some of us, as Norway for instance has just migrated their test sendings from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. Hopefully somebody will be able to continue Marcus' work and also implement support for MPEG-4. The Hauppauge! WinTV-NOVA-T-Stick USB2.0 has been reported to successfully work also with MPEG-4.

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Great Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-04-13 06:08:43 DVB-T support is great, but...    If once will be released complete driver for a Phillips TV cards on Haiku, I simply will be happy

Free beer is great Written by Marcus Overhagen on 2007-04-13 08:36:36 Free beer is great, but...    I want free wine and booze

DVB-S (Skystar2)... Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-04-13 08:50:37 ...would be also cool

Ogg Vorbis and Theora Written by JuggerNaut on 2007-04-13 17:42:49 I think Haiku media should revolve around the above said for native applications, but of course support open standards like MPEG, etc...

Haiku can only follow open standards Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-04-14 03:27:27 Yes JuggerNaut, the Haiku team should look in to getting open standards supported and leave for others to do commercial codecs.     Have a look at Fluendo, a company that sells commercial codecs for gstreamer (and Linux):    http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2007-01.html

BT878 analogous TV Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-04-14 07:36:41 Marcus, I have a PCI TV card with the BT878 chipset that works with BeOS R5. I don't use it anymore, so I can send it to you if you want to work on the haiku driver for it.

Driver request Written by Franxico on 2007-04-14 11:26:51 Hi! That's really really cool! Thanks Marcus!    Where should I make a driver request? I have a Cinergy T2 DVB-T     See ya!

Re: Haiku can only follow open standards Written by mmu_man on 2007-04-15 01:10:18 Haiku already supports more than enough codecs, through the port of FFDecoder I contributed long ago, which allows it to use all the codecs from ffmpeg (libavcodec), which is by far the most complete and used audio and video codec library in the Linux world (VLC, mplayer, xine, gstreamer... even FFDShow in windows use it). It might still need some work to send the codec extradata from the DVB app to get the MPEG4 codec working, but it's in here already.  See http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC24

Haupage stick Written by nutela on 2007-04-15 14:02:35 So does this stick have a driver for Haiku, Daat?

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