Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:12:49 +0200 From: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RFC libdvbaccess Message-ID: <AANLkTikz6QLPa=nz=PjYQC6_NmReUYQVZf3CyjAPOTpa@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, since there are currently multiple DVB backends available across different operating systems I was thinking about starting a library called libdvbaccess which more or less should provide the support for plugins for each DVB or video4linux backend. For example kaffeine is currently using HAL on FreeBSD, for the Linux world HAL is now obsolete and KDE is using sysfs for discovering devices. Also the design that userspace drivers have to pass everything back to kernelland does not really seem to be nice, userspace drivers came up since it's possible to move USB drivers entirely to userspace. For the future I even expect that this can be done with PCI/e devices by using the IOMMU technology. I'll start to go through some applications (there are not so many dvb applications anyway) within the next days. Does anyone have any comments on that? Regards, Markus
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