Steven Toth wrote: > 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? > This is a good idea, I would say this is necessary in the end to avoid inconsistency in the end. Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
