| Some notes regarding the cx18 driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG |
| encoder chip: |
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| 1) The only hardware currently supported is the Hauppauge HVR-1600. |
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| 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work. Cause unknown. |
| The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is |
| unusable. |
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| 3) The audio from the analog tuner is mono only. Probably caused by |
| incorrect audio register information in the datasheet. We are |
| waiting for updated information from Conexant. |
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| 4) VBI (raw or sliced) has not yet been implemented. |
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| 5) MPEG indexing is not yet implemented. |
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| 6) The driver is still a bit rough around the edges, this should |
| improve over time. |
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| Firmware: |
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| The firmware needs to be extracted from the Windows Hauppauge HVR-1600 |
| driver, available here: |
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| http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/install_cd/hauppauge_cd_3.4d1.zip |
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| Unzip, then copy the following files to the firmware directory |
| and rename them as follows: |
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| Drivers/Driver18/hcw18apu.rom -> v4l-cx23418-apu.fw |
| Drivers/Driver18/hcw18enc.rom -> v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw |
| Drivers/Driver18/hcw18mlC.rom -> v4l-cx23418-dig.fw |
