Is it possible to create a driver for USB tv/fm tuners? For pocketPC

[drutort]

Just wondering, would it be possible? it would be really nice feature for most pocketPC devices i would think... :confused:

im sure there is a bluetooth fm tunner, but i doubt you could stream video and sound through bluetooth? thus usb would be the best choice?

[Rudegar]

with usb there are masters and slaves
abd most pda's all htc ones i believe
are pure slaves they cant init a connection to
another slave like a tvtuner or external hd or webcam
they can only be accessed by the master (pc)

[drutort]

how do you find this out on the device? also is this a hardware or a software restriction?

ah nm i looked at pdadb.net and saw most say, client, only few out there have client/host but its 1.1 only

so is there anything that is bluetooth that has usb host? or sdio with usb host?

ok ok, how about wifi with usb host??? i know wifi sucks a lot of battery life though

[Percz]

It's hardware restrictions, but to be honest the reception will be poor walking around on your mobile anyways.
Why not just load up some vids to your PDA and watch them via TCPMP? Much better quality and less battery.

[Rudegar]

recall a CF card which i think supported usb host

[drutort]

well i was looking more so for bluetooth, as most devices have 2.0, i cant remember were it was but i thought i saw a bluetooth mouse with a SD card, it might have been a usb one but i remember clearly in artical talking about using the sd card reader over bluetooth, that would be great for low bandwidth stuff, what would be super is a SDHC ability, that way you could shove sdhc card in it and have over 8gb+ of space of music/video etc...

but i dont get why there is no bluetooth usb host... or at least bluetooth multi card reader?

i have see a multi card reader but it was with bluetooth and it connected to host... so im wondering ifi the bluetooth can allow access to the card reader on its own if the usb plug was used to power the unit only