Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:40:49 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> To: Scott Donovan <scottd@telstra.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BT848/winTV/Teletext/video4linux etc. Message-ID: <3716F791.D7A179A8@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <19990415222547.A22102@ipass.net>
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Randall > I grabbed the latest copy of FXTV and it worked a treat, only real pest was > having to modify the bt848 kernel driver to allow me to use a standard set > of Australian Frequencies, which also now works wonderfully. Although all > this was not a process for a total FreeBSD novice.. If you send me the changes, I can include them in the newversion of the driver. > However after all this I have a few questions: > > 1. Does anyone know of a teletext program that works with the bt848 driver ? I have one. I have an experimental Bt848 driver and have ported the Linux Teletext decode/viewing software to FreeBSD > 2. Given that it is likely there may be other chipset drivers for FreeBSD > has anyone thought of pulling together a standard API etc (ala video4linux). I also wrote part of the V4L API for the FreeBSD driver but never finished the work. It would be great if someone could finish the job. > 3. Is there anyway that we can leverage the stack of code currently out > there for video4linux? (XawTV,Teletext,WMTV and heaps of others) Yes, if we write V4L API support into the bt848 driver > 4. Given that the latest bt848 driver appears to have the appropriate > defines to cope with the wintv IR remote, will that support be included in > fxtv? I added the IR support to the driver. Rolf (I think) wrote a little IR -> Volume control application. FXTV support is up to Randall or probably someone else who has the IR handset. > 5. Can a "Frequency Set" be included for australia (to add to nabcst etc) > to the existing bt848 distribution (saves me patching each time I get the > latest driver)? Yes, send me the patches. ( roger@cs.strath.ac.uk ) > 6. Could the bt848 frequency set information be dynamically included during > boot time (ala pnp style commands)? We could have a userland progam called bt848_config which can load the driver with various settings (eg tuner type, audio type, channel sets). Bye Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897 roger@cs.strath.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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