From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 14:12:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED23416A40F for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:12:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5EAC13C44C for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:12:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i7so66662wra for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:12:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=H3PMJD6hAPPWbT3nSuEgf/MoT9DnK4cPQNHpm/Joo536Xk19UD91WJbD3O3POeYepL9JAPXtI+F0z24j71v0/e+HDkhykTYk00t+egZCf3EDu1cUyLwXtkFySrQeIxubh0IUeefglnQJXJrsTeHn/ZGpudD4TNQY+ALjkamNhLo= Received: by 10.78.178.5 with SMTP id a5mr198080huf.1166651312365; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.124.8 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:48:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:32 +0100 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: "Alexander Leidinger" In-Reply-To: <20061220083600.eu2c9lwcg00ssg8s@webmail.leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6300771b0612181401i72e7cc58ta08e12de8d68d4d0@mail.gmail.com> <6300771b0612181534h3158342aw554869660fc707ea@mail.gmail.com> <20061218234041.GU4364@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20061219224005.GC4364@wantadilla.lemis.com> <6300771b0612191524y64af793cy10f9bff4193536c7@mail.gmail.com> <6300771b0612191642k3cda3985o4b860b839847f9d8@mail.gmail.com> <20061220083600.eu2c9lwcg00ssg8s@webmail.leidinger.net> Cc: Stephen Hocking , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:12:34 -0000 Dear Alexander, List, On 12/20/06, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Stephen Hocking (from Wed, 20 Dec > 2006 11:42:08 +1100): > > > I'm all digital, and as far as I'm aware, there's no settled kernel API > for > > DVB-T cards (or video really, in general) for FBSD. > > Here's a proposal: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jmg/videobsd.html while i understand the urge to define a multimedia-framework for BSD, i think it's too little too late. i believe the proper way to propell BSD into multimedia is to adopt V4L(2). i made the multimedia/pvrxxx driver V4L2 compatible, and made mythtv compile and run. now it just works. i don't particular like V4L(2), but me thinks it's the only way. regards, usleep