Then you can help out by donating to "Devin's LinuxTV Support fund!"Ī: The money will be used strictly for the purchase of ATSC devices so I can make them work under Linux.
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Even when the devices only cost around $50, this adds up quickly for a single developer.ĭo you want to support LinuxTV development but you're not a developer?ĭo you want to see your ATSC device work under Linux but you don't know how to do it yourself? There have been many cases where I've had to say "Well, I can get this device working in one evening if I had only one to test/debug with in my environment".Īs a result, I've spent several hundred dollars in the last year, buying devices just so I can make them work in Linux. But dealing with users remotely is an *extremely* laborious task compared to just having the hardware. I also deal regularly with people on the linux-media mailing list and in the #linuxtv and #v4l chatrooms, sending patches to them for other devices and eventually getting their devices to work as well. In addition to adding support for specific devices, I also do a good bit of work on the framework and specific chipsets (such as the em28xx, xc5000, au0828, au8522, saa7136, and dib0700), as well as contributing ATSC support to the Kaffeine Media Player.Īll of my work is open source and has been merged into the Linux mainline kernel so that users of all Linux distributions will benefit.