Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:46:42 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: usleepless@gmail.com Cc: Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?) Message-ID: <20061221074642.ezsk9if6ucws8w0k@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <c39ec84c0612201348y6c0ccb2dwada388b3833fc94f@mail.gmail.com> References: <6300771b0612181401i72e7cc58ta08e12de8d68d4d0@mail.gmail.com> <6300771b0612181534h3158342aw554869660fc707ea@mail.gmail.com> <20061218234041.GU4364@wantadilla.lemis.com> <c39ec84c0612190937u572ff6bco28606f54645275a5@mail.gmail.com> <20061219224005.GC4364@wantadilla.lemis.com> <c39ec84c0612191509w6a5ccf10iedb640bb8dacef1c@mail.gmail.com> <6300771b0612191524y64af793cy10f9bff4193536c7@mail.gmail.com> <c39ec84c0612191554v280ddc3bq4493ebdecb3b8de@mail.gmail.com> <6300771b0612191642k3cda3985o4b860b839847f9d8@mail.gmail.com> <20061220083600.eu2c9lwcg00ssg8s@webmail.leidinger.net> <c39ec84c0612201348y6c0ccb2dwada388b3833fc94f@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting usleepless@gmail.com (from Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:32 +0100): > Dear Alexander, List, > > On 12/20/06, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: >> Quoting Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> (from Wed, 20 Dec >> 2006 11:42:08 +1100): >> >>> I'm all digital, and as far as I'm aware, there's no settled kernel API >> for >>> DVB-T cards (or video really, in general) for FBSD. >> >> Here's a proposal: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~jmg/videobsd.html > > while i understand the urge to define a multimedia-framework for BSD, > i think it's too little too late. > > i believe the proper way to propell BSD into multimedia is to adopt > V4L(2). i made the multimedia/pvrxxx driver V4L2 compatible, and made > mythtv compile and run. now it just works. > > i don't particular like V4L(2), but me thinks it's the only way. Free stuff which is better than less good stuff is always the enemy of the less good stuff. Let's call it video4unix and see what happens. Lobby a little bit in the opensolaris camp, and you may even gain some kind of commercial interest behind it. I don't say we should not make existing drivers v4lX compliant, I just say we should not block inventions. If someone is interested in doing it, let him do it. If it is more easy to use and/or offers more requested features, I'm sure it will be used. Bye, Alexander. -- I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. -- Saki, "Reginald on Worries" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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