Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:11:29 +0100 From: Christian Gusenbauer <c47g@gmx.at> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, jmg@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?) Message-ID: <200612221311.35810.c47g@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <20061222130146.gvkyx9awbogskw84@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20061218234041.GU4364@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200612221128.29530.c47g@gmx.at> <20061222130146.gvkyx9awbogskw84@webmail.leidinger.net>
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--nextPart4209158.QIhxgdZGav Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi! On Friday, 22. December 2006 13:01, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Christian Gusenbauer <c47g@gmx.at> (from Fri, 22 Dec 2006 > > 11:28:15 +0100): > > Well, I think I implemented almost all of the v4l2 framework. Then I to= ok > > the FreeBSD bktr driver, separated the radio/tuner part and got it > > working as a v4l2 aware driver, too. This driver registers with the > > framework and a /dev/v4l2/radio0 entry is being created. I got > > fmtools-0.99.0 up and running, too. > > > > But there is a difference to the original Linux framework. AFAIR, in > > Linux, one of the kernel structures holds the open file handle, but in > > FreeBSD there's no place for it. So I changed the internals of the > > framework a bit, but the API for the applications should be the same as > > for Linux. > > > > What's missing is the video part. I had not enough specs about the v4l2 > > framework to get it running. And - what was the main problem for me - I > > did not have time to rewrite the bktr driver as v4l2 driver. You know, = no > > information about the v4l2 framework and no information about the bktr > > driver internals ... so I gave up. > > > > Then, in August 2005 Julian Elischer (julian@elischer.org) asked me to > > give him my work, because he wanted to do something with it. Maybe he > > didn't have time :-(. > > Julian, did you upon improved this? If yes, can you make it available > (maybe someone is interested to proceed). > > > So before someone steps in and invents the wheel again, please contact > > Julian first :-). > > Can you make it available somewhere in case Julian did not proceed > with it? If you don't have a place where to put it online, I offer to > put it up on my site for you. Of course I can and will. But first ask Julian, I don't want that his work = is=20 lost.=20 > > Bye, > Alexander. --nextPart4209158.QIhxgdZGav Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFi8t373Wh/GTgh8wRAmjUAJ9LWnKmmXAf7aE/gj86eTbgazFOZACgiGxR As78ZJdwrE8MVNlXUK932oI= =4Ox3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4209158.QIhxgdZGav--
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