AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[David Nelson]

I have the AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB. Which has been
working great for several years in Windows 7 Media Center. I just
tried installing Mythbuntu but it does not appear to be recognized. I
am a bit of a newbie but I managed to find some info about it.

Does anyone know of a driver for it? lspci says it uses the Philips
SAA7160 which does appear to be in a few other supported devices.

Details follow

I get the following from lspci -vvnnk

03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160
[1131:7160] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device [1461:1e55]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at ef800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>


I can see that there is a driver for a few other devices with this
chip at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/NXP_SAA716x  (i.e.
heading "As of (2014-06-07)"


-- 
-David Nelson

Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[Manu Abraham]

Hi David,

The saa7160 chipset is supported by the saa716x driver.
I wrote a driver for it, which is over here.
http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/manu/saa716x_new.git

I do have the A188 card and documentation also with me,
thanks to Avermedia.

The card is not yet supported in the above tree, so cloning
that tree will not help much in your case. Though I have
some code related to that, it is only on my local testbox

I've been with an accident and my other hand is in a restrictive
state with minimal movements. It will be a few weeks, before
I can do something in this area. It's not much help to you at
this point right now, but just fyi

Manu



On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:46 AM, David Nelson <nelson.dt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB. Which has been
> working great for several years in Windows 7 Media Center. I just
> tried installing Mythbuntu but it does not appear to be recognized. I
> am a bit of a newbie but I managed to find some info about it.
>
> Does anyone know of a driver for it? lspci says it uses the Philips
> SAA7160 which does appear to be in a few other supported devices.
>
> Details follow
>
> I get the following from lspci -vvnnk
>
> 03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160
> [1131:7160] (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device [1461:1e55]
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: Memory at ef800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
>
>
> I can see that there is a driver for a few other devices with this
> chip at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/NXP_SAA716x  (i.e.
> heading "As of (2014-06-07)"
>
>
> --
> -David Nelson
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Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[David Nelson]

It's been a while since I originally asked you about this has there
been any progress?

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> The saa7160 chipset is supported by the saa716x driver.
> I wrote a driver for it, which is over here.
> http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/manu/saa716x_new.git
>
> I do have the A188 card and documentation also with me,
> thanks to Avermedia.
>
> The card is not yet supported in the above tree, so cloning
> that tree will not help much in your case. Though I have
> some code related to that, it is only on my local testbox
>
> I've been with an accident and my other hand is in a restrictive
> state with minimal movements. It will be a few weeks, before
> I can do something in this area. It's not much help to you at
> this point right now, but just fyi
>
> Manu
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:46 AM, David Nelson <nelson.dt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have the AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB. Which has been
>> working great for several years in Windows 7 Media Center. I just
>> tried installing Mythbuntu but it does not appear to be recognized. I
>> am a bit of a newbie but I managed to find some info about it.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a driver for it? lspci says it uses the Philips
>> SAA7160 which does appear to be in a few other supported devices.
>>
>> Details follow
>>
>> I get the following from lspci -vvnnk
>>
>> 03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160
>> [1131:7160] (rev 01)
>> Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device [1461:1e55]
>> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>> Region 0: Memory at ef800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>> Capabilities: <access denied>
>>
>>
>> I can see that there is a driver for a few other devices with this
>> chip at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/NXP_SAA716x  (i.e.
>> heading "As of (2014-06-07)"
>>
>>
>> --
>> -David Nelson
>> --
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>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
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Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[Manu Abraham]

Hi,

I just got back at work again. Will set things up this weekend/next week.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:38 AM, David Nelson <nelson.dt@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's been a while since I originally asked you about this has there
> been any progress?
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> The saa7160 chipset is supported by the saa716x driver.
>> I wrote a driver for it, which is over here.
>> http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/manu/saa716x_new.git
>>
>> I do have the A188 card and documentation also with me,
>> thanks to Avermedia.
>>
>> The card is not yet supported in the above tree, so cloning
>> that tree will not help much in your case. Though I have
>> some code related to that, it is only on my local testbox
>>
>> I've been with an accident and my other hand is in a restrictive
>> state with minimal movements. It will be a few weeks, before
>> I can do something in this area. It's not much help to you at
>> this point right now, but just fyi
>>
>> Manu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:46 AM, David Nelson <nelson.dt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have the AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB. Which has been
>>> working great for several years in Windows 7 Media Center. I just
>>> tried installing Mythbuntu but it does not appear to be recognized. I
>>> am a bit of a newbie but I managed to find some info about it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a driver for it? lspci says it uses the Philips
>>> SAA7160 which does appear to be in a few other supported devices.
>>>
>>> Details follow
>>>
>>> I get the following from lspci -vvnnk
>>>
>>> 03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160
>>> [1131:7160] (rev 01)
>>> Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device [1461:1e55]
>>> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>>> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>>> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>>> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>>> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>>> Region 0: Memory at ef800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>>> Capabilities: <access denied>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can see that there is a driver for a few other devices with this
>>> chip at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/NXP_SAA716x  (i.e.
>>> heading "As of (2014-06-07)"
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -David Nelson
>>> --
>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in
>>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
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>
>
>
> --
> -David Nelson
> Home: 801-302-1347
> Cell: 801-205-8248

Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[Jemma Denson]

Hi Manu,

On 08/10/15 17:28, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got back at work again. Will set things up this weekend/next week.

Have you had a chance to make any more progress on this?

As you're probably aware there are quite a few drivers waiting for 
saa716x to be integrated into the tree; if you need some help here is 
the work remaining to be done something that can be picked up by other 
people?

Regards,

Jemma.

Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[Manu Abraham]

Hi Jemma,

I am having a downtime, the development machine in a recovery
process. If things go well, expecting the system next week.

Regards,

Manu


On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jemma Denson <jdenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Manu,
>
> On 08/10/15 17:28, Manu Abraham wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just got back at work again. Will set things up this weekend/next week.
>
>
> Have you had a chance to make any more progress on this?
>
> As you're probably aware there are quite a few drivers waiting for saa716x
> to be integrated into the tree; if you need some help here is the work
> remaining to be done something that can be picked up by other people?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jemma.
>
>
>

Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[Olli Salonen]

Hi Manu,

How's it going with the SAA7160? I'd be really happy to see the driver
being mainlined, but do not really understand if there is some major
showstoppers still that keep this from happening.

Luis has his personal media_tree here
https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media/wiki that contains Manu's
SAA7160 driver and as far as I understand many people are using that
tree with good success. If that could integrated into the tree, I'm
sure the community can help to iron out any possible issues existing
there still.

Cheers,
-olli

On 7 December 2015 at 14:06, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jemma,
>
> I am having a downtime, the development machine in a recovery
> process. If things go well, expecting the system next week.
>
> Regards,
>
> Manu
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jemma Denson <jdenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Manu,
>>
>> On 08/10/15 17:28, Manu Abraham wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just got back at work again. Will set things up this weekend/next week.
>>
>>
>> Have you had a chance to make any more progress on this?
>>
>> As you're probably aware there are quite a few drivers waiting for saa716x
>> to be integrated into the tree; if you need some help here is the work
>> remaining to be done something that can be picked up by other people?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jemma.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

[Manu Abraham]

Hi Olli,

Most of the work which went into the saa716x (saa7160xx and sa7162x)
I had pushed out to
http://git.linuxtv.org//manu/saa716x_new.git/
so that people were able to use it while it was being developed.
There were some issues over here (things went through a data recovery
process), which got sorted out. There are other changes that also needed
to be pushed out. It is just a matter of time, to get those changes out.

Regards,
Manu



On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Olli Salonen <olli.salonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi Manu,
>
> How's it going with the SAA7160? I'd be really happy to see the driver
> being mainlined, but do not really understand if there is some major
> showstoppers still that keep this from happening.
>
> Luis has his personal media_tree here
> https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media/wiki that contains Manu's
> SAA7160 driver and as far as I understand many people are using that
> tree with good success. If that could integrated into the tree, I'm
> sure the community can help to iron out any possible issues existing
> there still.
>
> Cheers,
> -olli
>
> On 7 December 2015 at 14:06, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jemma,
>>
>> I am having a downtime, the development machine in a recovery
>> process. If things go well, expecting the system next week.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Manu
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jemma Denson <jdenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Manu,
>>>
>>> On 08/10/15 17:28, Manu Abraham wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just got back at work again. Will set things up this weekend/next week.
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you had a chance to make any more progress on this?
>>>
>>> As you're probably aware there are quite a few drivers waiting for saa716x
>>> to be integrated into the tree; if you need some help here is the work
>>> remaining to be done something that can be picked up by other people?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jemma.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
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