Marcus Overhagen has decided to add his DVB-T project to the Haiku source tree, as it already can run on Haiku and not only BeOS R5. Compared to BeOS, Haiku still lack a live TV input. BeOS R5 included a driver for BT878 analogous TV, Haiku as of today hasn't one. As Marcus doesn't have any analogous TV anymore, he will not be able to change that.

The DVB-T sources includies driver, media-add-on and a basic TV application. The audio and video codecs that Marcus used with BeOS and ZETA will not be included, simply cause Haiku allready has all the required codecs. This means some porting work after the initial checkin, to utilize the Haiku media kit in the way it's meant to be used. DVB will then use the Haiku codecs by means of the BMediaDecoder class.

Sad thing for some of us, as Norway for instance has just migrated their test sendings from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. Hopefully somebody will be able to continue Marcus' work and also implement support for MPEG-4. The Hauppauge! WinTV-NOVA-T-Stick USB2.0 has been reported to successfully work also with MPEG-4.