Monday, October 27, 2008

Avid Technology Announces Sale of PCTV Product Line to Hauppauge Digital

So the business unit that makes Pinnacle tuners has been sold to Hauppauge:
http://www.avid.com/company/releases/2008/081027_pctv_pinnacle.html

This can only really be a good thing for Linux. The developers at Hauppauge write a large portion of the tuner drivers in Linux (independent of who uses them). And combined with Pinnacle's recent support of my Linux development, this is great news.

Still struggling to get that first lock on the Pinnacle 80e. Very frustrating.

I did debug some issues yesterday with Kaffeine QAM scanning support for digital cable. Fixed a crash, and made a couple of other improvements. Found out how screwed up Time Warner's PSIP information is. Ugh.