From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon May 17 21:17:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C01814BED for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 21:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottd@telstra.net) Received: from pc62 ([203.18.120.99]) by nico.telstra.net (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA13648; Tue, 18 May 1999 14:16:22 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990518141621.0121d060@nico.telstra.net> X-Sender: scottd@nico.telstra.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:16:21 +1000 To: Roger Hardiman From: Scott Donovan Subject: Re: BT848/winTV/Teletext/video4linux etc. Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3716F791.D7A179A8@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <19990415222547.A22102@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi guys, Have been on leave and so forth, finally getting a chance to get back into some bt848/fxtv/vid4linux stuff etc. I have had a basic play with incorporating the wintv remote stuff into fxtv remote system, although i am fumbling around alittle (medium sized perl scripts is usually the extent of my coding abilities). I have it sort of working :-) >> 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. i will grab the latest driver and send over a patch.. It think there has been a couple of revs since I originally played with it :-) >I have one. I have an experimental Bt848 driver and have ported the >Linux >Teletext decode/viewing software to FreeBSD Are you willing to release it into the world, or is it still alittle prem ? >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. Anyone willing to give a hand here, I am noticing an ever larger number of V4L apps we could leverage. >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. Ahh fair enough.. I might ask randall for some pointers. >> 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). That would be a good idea as I have just given a friend in new zealand a hand with putting the freq sets for there in (by hand, and recompiling the kernel) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message