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DVB & progress

On 15th September 2005 by Ashok Argent-Katwala[ashok]
I'm pleased to see that Marcus Overhagen has made significant progress with his DVB drivers, and released time-limited preview releases onto BeBits - see Marcus' BeBits profile.
I'm in the middle of finishing my PhD thesis right now, while my Be machine needs some serious attention, so won't get a chance to play with them just yet, but it's good to see things out in the world.
This also raises the question of how to pay for hard work like that which has gone into making these drivers, and I've some ideas, but they'll have to wait a few months.
I still intend to return to this project, but it will probably change shape a little. The basic goals remain the same, but the world has changed quite a lot since this was first conceived. I'd still like to do something under a Be-like operating system, and Haiku is starting to look rather promising. That said, I may move the core code to something a bit more cross platform, to fit with other things I'm working on. I've got around 4 weeks pegged at the end of the year to grind away on videdot and release something worthwhile.

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