Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:13:48 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, me@janh.de, kde@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kaffeine-1.0 and webcamd based DVB-T? Message-ID: <4C6DC8BC.9080100@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201008191617.o7JGHq9c003392@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <4C66C4BC.4040504@janh.de> <4C6704A6.3050407@FreeBSD.org> <201008191617.o7JGHq9c003392@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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On 8/19/10 12:17 PM, Juergen Lock wrote:
> In article <4C6704A6.3050407@FreeBSD.org> you write:
>> On 08/14/2010 18:30, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>>> KDE3-Kaffeine was working with my webcamd based DVB-T stick,
>>> KDE4-Kaffeine does not.
>>>
>>> Now that multimedia/kaffeine is the KDE4 version and the KDE3 version
>>> gone, is there a way to teach Kaffeine about the DVB-T stick? ("Channel
>>> Scan" does not show any "Source".)
>>>
>>> I remember there was a thread about this, but I currently cannot find it.
>>
>> Unfortunately i don't have a supported DVB stick, so i can't test anything.
>>
>> kaffeine uses the v4l-compat headers so in theory it should work like in
>> Linux...
>>
>> Does your stick work with other applications like mplayer or vlc?
>
> I now know what's wrong: Unlike the old kaffeine which looked for
> dvb devices itself, the KDE4 version relies on x11/kdelibs4 to
> find them (<Solid/DvbInterface>, src/dvb/dvbdevice_linux.cpp
> in kaffeine sources), which in turn relies on sysutils/hal
> (solid/solid/backends/hal/haldvbinterface.cpp in kdelibs), and
> at least hal doesn't know about dvb devices on FreeBSD yet, they
> are only handled in hald/linux/device.c in hal sources. I've
> Cc'd the hal and kdelibs port maintainers in case they want to
> look at this...
Hal does support v4l (and thus webcamd) right now. I added that for
GNOME 2.30. I didn't do any dvb support. I may need some examples of
dmesg and sysctl to make this happen.
Joe
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