1 Some notes regarding the cx18 driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG
4 1) The only hardware currently supported is the Hauppauge HVR-1600
5 card and the Compro VideoMate H900 (note that this card only
6 supports analog input, it has no digital tuner!).
8 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work. Cause unknown.
9 The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is
12 3) The audio from the analog tuner is mono only. Probably caused by
13 incorrect audio register information in the datasheet. We are
14 waiting for updated information from Conexant.
16 4) VBI (raw or sliced) has not yet been implemented.
18 5) MPEG indexing is not yet implemented.
20 6) The driver is still a bit rough around the edges, this should
26 The firmware needs to be extracted from the Windows Hauppauge HVR-1600
27 driver, available here:
29 http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/install_cd/hauppauge_cd_3.4d1.zip
31 Unzip, then copy the following files to the firmware directory
32 and rename them as follows:
34 Drivers/Driver18/hcw18apu.rom -> v4l-cx23418-apu.fw
35 Drivers/Driver18/hcw18enc.rom -> v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
36 Drivers/Driver18/hcw18mlC.rom -> v4l-cx23418-dig.fw