Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:41:15 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVB/ATSC library? Message-ID: <2e027be01002120141l7829546du7085da7ecce7aa14@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d9def9db1002112145w7a6eeaffk239514d35ee64ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <d9def9db1002112145w7a6eeaffk239514d35ee64ca@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > since we are trying to find a sane way for integrating DVB/ATSC > devices with FreeBSD how about using a library which gives us more > possibilities? > PCI devices are still not possible to be used with userspace only > drivers, while with USB devices this is no problem, so in case > the developer can decide if he wants to write a userspace driver which > does not create any real nodes in /dev or to handle most things in > kernelspace. > > Basically the first version of the library only has to replace > open/close/read/write/ioctl/mmap/munmap/dup/poll/access(maybe)/stat. > Since most linux players have to be modified for FreeBSD anyway this > should not be such a problem, maybe the hack that we have a > kernelmodule emulating > the videointerfaces is not really the best way to go for. > I volunteer to port some v4l-dvb Apps and tvtime to FreeBSD. > > Since VDPAU also seems to work on FreeBSD I'm very much interest to > support our DVB-C (especially for HDTV)/DVB-T/analogTV/FM radio USB > Stick on FreeBSD, > now the driver is working but there are just no applications available > which work out of the box. > > Markus Hi Markus (mrec from irc?) HPS has been working to try and get USB DVB devices working through video4bsd/webcamd/cuse4bsd, and I'm the gimp doing the testing(!) For testing with v4l, I minimally ported linux-dvb-utils, and have had 'scan' working at least. I've also applied the same sort of patches to mplayer (configure with --enable-dvbhead), but not yet had a chance to test it - still can't tune the device to a channel yet :) Cheers Tom
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