Starting DVB development

After some talk to Bernd Korz from Yellowtab about DVB (digital video broadcasting), I decided I would try to make a DVB-T driver and application for BeOS, Haiku and Zeta.

This development is not funded by Yellowtab, they only helped my a bit by putting me in contact with Hauppauge. I had a telephone conference with Hauppauge's CEO and one of their driver developers. Unfortunately they can't provide any more documentation than already available publically. But they offered that I can contact them if i have problems, and also promised to send two DVB-T cards.

By midweek, those two cards arrived at Yellowtab, and they promptly forwarded one of them to me.

During the last two days I started writing a driver for the card, did some research, and collected all availabale information. The driver recognizes the card now, and I'm trying to get I²C communication working. This is for example needed to control the tuner.

While Linux has I²C support in the kernel which is easy to use, BeOS doesn't. Thus I'm writing a new I²C framework, before I can start with the card specific I²C details.