On Wednesday 19 December 2007 18:39:21 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? > > - Steve Take a look in v4l2-apps/lib :-) It's the start of a v4l2 library, I just never had the time to do anything with it. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
