You will be able to sign up for the EFIKA Developer Program until the end of the month or until 200 participants, whichever comes first.

The boards will begin to ship in November.


R&B

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The EFIKA developer program is coming to fruition. There should be a celebration.
I hope I will be here (Australia) to recieve one in time because Im heading off to Europe in late November

They are not being thrown across the ocean indiscriminately.

Just say so and we'll hold one back until you can use it.

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Matt Sealey

These are the best types of posts... thanks for letting us know where things are with the EFIKA .

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Joshua Purcell

It is time to act!

Get signed up if you are not already and please verify your shipping address with Matt.

Thanks.

R&B

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Hi !
I would like to know Which version of EFIKA is going to be shipped among those :

• V1: *without* FPGA and GFX chip
(original design)
• V2-A : *with* FPGA + GFX chip *on
board* (XGI V3 -XP5) but no PCI slot
• V2-B : *with* FPGA, *no on board* GFX
chip but PCI slot instead (XGI V3XT GFX
card might be sponsored for some
developers)

I'm asking that, because it seems that I need a slot (PCI/AGP) to use a tuner card (so not a V2-A).

I would also like to know if there is a XGI gfx card with TV tuner available (and if so, if there is a way to get sponsored for using it ).

Anyway, I've found those pictures that may give an idea about XGI product compared to ATI and NVIDIA ones :

I could also use this card (ATI all-in-wonder 9200) :


See review here : http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/aiw9200/

But in both case a need a riser-EFIKA version

Does this include people who have already signed up?

geoffrey, would you really want to use that 2 years old card for tv though, as far as i can see it doesnt even do the industry standard DVB format, rememeber that the old analogue TV switchoff in the uk and elsewere (EU etc) will start soon.

its clear that DVB (as iv been saying for a while now) is the standard all the turnkey people will be using.

everything from DVB-T,C,S and the new H, plus IPTV and perhaps even personal multicasting video blogging will be able to use AVC if we can convince the ISP's to turn back on the multicasting in the routers all the way to the users ?, assuming the FPGA is powerful enough to encode from a video-in or at least decode AVC content, think bigger and better....

ofcourse you dont have the ability to use the cheap USB2 DVB cards eather alas as the full DVB MUX needs far more than the limited USB1 bandwidth allows.

http://www.newvideobusiness.com/content ... tion/1/26/

this one shows were its at with the professional markets today.
http://www.newvideobusiness.com/content/view/74/26/

How should we do that?

Just enter it into your profile.

If it's wrong or it won't go into our FedEx shipping API tool, you won't get a board, it's that simple. Whatever address your local post office confirms you have, including zip code etc,. is what we are looking for.

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popper, I'm afraid I can't use a better one (and this one is quite rare and expensive - about 100 euros).
Two problems :
- Voltage of 3.3V
- PCI 2.2 compatible or AGP (x?)
- Drivers under Linux and ... MorphOS.

The alternative is using a TV tuner on USB, but it's USB 1.1 and I don't want it to be external

But, maybe I'm wrong... Neko ?

Just enter it into your profile.

I do not want my address to be publicly viewable. Where in the profile should I enter it to make sure it is not visible for everyone?

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Ive entered my address into my profile and as far as Im aware no-one can see it but bbrv/genesi staff.

Again, free hardware specifications would have let to try using the GPU's processing power to do the calculations. Do you know what is needed in a card in order to let us use it as a fast coprocessor in vector calculations?

(I hope to not go out of topic with this) Did Genesi ever contacted or followed the development of the Open Graphics Project? At the moment they are defining the chip architecture and the creation of the first development board. Could cooperation bring something good?