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Subject: Re: bt848 driver with PAL support 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi Guys,

Been tied up with work ... So has anyone managed to try out 
Richard's improvements to the bt848 driver ?

	Tnks!
	Amancio


>From The Desk Of Richard Tobin :
> OK, the first version of the bt848 driver with PAL support is now
> available at
> 
>   ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/richard/bt848.970329-rmt.tar.gz
> 
> Please try it even if you're an NTSC user, to verify that it still
> works.  Maybe someone could put a link to it on the web page.
> 
> To be precise, it supports PAL-I as used in the UK and some other
> countries, but changes for other versions of PAL should be trivial (I
> don't think we know how to distinguish the various PAL tuners, but I
> don't know if we have to).
> 
> There are still bugs.  In full resolution (768x576) one field is often
> not updated, producing bizarre ghosting.
> 
> I've also changed Steve's interface to AFC.  It's now
> 
>   int onoff;
>   ioctl(fd, TVTUNER_SETAFC, &onoff);
>   ioctl(fd, TVTUNER_GETAFC, &onoff);
> 
> This allows you to query whether AFC is on so that (eg) you can set a
> toggle to the right state, or restore the original state.  Something
> should be added to let a program determine whether AFC was successful
> or not, and maybe enabling AFC should also do it immediately.
> 
> Randall: fxtv will need to be able to select a channel set for each
> of antenna and cable modes; I'll look at this tomorrow.
> 
> -- Richard
>