On 8/2/07, Thomas Gambier <gambier@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new in the mailing list and in the DVB project, so my questions can seem > simples but I'll be glad if you can help... > > I'm in an internship and I have to write a driver for a chip containing the > Philips TDA10046 chipset, the other parts of the chip are proprietary to the > company. > > A previous trainee wrote the part about the frontend and the demux and I > have to write the audio and video decoder part. I work with the linux DVB > API v3 (since the chip is using a 2.6.15 kernel). I read a lot the code in > the dvb-core directory and the code of the previous trainee and I think I've > understand how it works (at least the basic principles). And now I want to > start writing the video decoder part but I don't find any structure for the > video decoder in the dvb-core I can reuse. > > I tried to search for the drivers for the full-featured DVB card but I > didn't find a structure here neither (I have to admit that I didn't > understand well how it works). > > So I'm seeking help in all kind of types (references that might be useful, > some sites or some source code I should look...) about the writing of this > part of the driver. But I want to stay in the DVB API and not going to v4l > drivers or somethings... I just want to have the device > /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 work properly. > > And last question, will a software like mplayer be able to play dvb streams > just with the dvb drivers or does it need the /dev/video and the v4l drivers > ? > Hi to me it doesn't seem to be clear if you understood the difference between v4l and dvb? Video4linux is usually used for analogue TV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television) dvb for digital transmitted TV. So are you trying to write a driver for the analogue or the digital part? There's nothing wrong to use the v4l API for analogue TV. Markus > Don't hesitate to ask more precisions... > > Thank you in advance!!! > > -- > Thomas > -- Markus Rechberger _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
