Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:26:35 CityK wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Google summer of code will be rolling around in a couple of months. >> Now I know we've talked a little bit about it before, but I don't >> recall what the thoughts on it were. In any regard, on the surface >> of things, it would seem a perfect opportunity for the LinuxTV >> Project to leverage -- i.e. enslave a few students to get some >> desperately needed tasks, components, apps, drivers or whatever done. >> Side benefit -- it might hopefully attact a few more developers to >> the project too -- get some new blood, stir up the pot, chase after >> nagging/long-time bugs etc, etc. >> >> So, I suggest we start thinking about or, better yet, discussing >> ideas/projects for which we could make use of the GSOC. >> >> (I, of course, was kidding about the enslavement part) Pity, that was my favorite part ;) > > I think that this might be an ideal opportunity to develop a v4l2 > library that can be used by applications to access v4l devices. > Something like that is sorely missing and nobody has the time to really > work on it. I've always thought that this is a good project for > something like GSOC. > Why stop at a v4l2 library, why not include digital to complete the TV experience? A unified library that protects the kernel (at the expense of a newer more flexible userland API/ABI). How about a concise library for analog/digital channels worldwide? A concrete and reliable set of frequencies, country by country, video/audio standards, bandwidths etc so userland apps can stop having to care about internal channel tables? - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
