Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:26:58 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?) Message-ID: <20061222005658.GE78631@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20061221074642.ezsk9if6ucws8w0k@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <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> <20061221074642.ezsk9if6ucws8w0k@webmail.leidinger.net>
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--vmttodhTwj0NAgWp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 21 December 2006 at 7:46:42 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting usleepless@gmail.com (from Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:32 +0100): >> 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. I think I agree with both of you :-) On the one hand, Yet Another Standard is probably a bad idea. Whatever we come up with should be relatively compatible with V4L. On the other hand, improvements are not a bad idea; ideally they should be of a form that the V4L people would be prepared to take on board. The real issue, though, is: who is going to do this work? I only have limited time, and I haven't seen much activity from others in this area. Given that, we shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --vmttodhTwj0NAgWp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFiy1aIubykFB6QiMRAly7AJ4hUhukQyzI4SBtUpn+q8/pyVN55ACcC7Ng 9bl8VkXxDbmcx/DYR+uwujI= =9Rz0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vmttodhTwj0NAgWp--
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