Re: GIGABYTE U8000-RH Analog source support ?

["Fernando P. García" <fernando@develcuy.com>]

So it needs 2.5 weeks, how much per hour do you estimate?

Blessings.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Devin Heitmueller
<dheitmueller@kernellabs.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/31 Fernando P. García <fernandoparedesgarcia@gmail.com>:
>> May you elaborate about the "huge undertaking"
>>
>> Fernando.
>
> The issue is the dvb-usb framework on which the dib0700 driver is
> built has absolutely no support for analog.  Adding support for a new
> bridge (both raw video and PCM audio) is on the order of 100 hours of
> work for somebody who knows what they are doing.  It includes adding
> all the V4L2 hooks and ioctls(), reverse engineering the format of the
> delivered video, inserting the video into videobuf, reverse
> engineering how audio is provided by the hardware (and how it is
> controlled), and creating an ALSA driver to handle the audio feed.
>
> Oh, and then you have to debug all the edge cases.
>
> I did it for the au0828 bridge, and I'm in the middle of doing it for
> the ngene bridge.  It's a royal PITA and at this point no developer is
> willing to invest the time/energy to do it for free.
>
> Devin
>
> --
> Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
> http://www.kernellabs.com
>



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