On 3/25/08, Aidan Thornton <makosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Markus Rechberger > <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 3/24/08, Aidan Thornton <makosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've been attempting to get something that can cleanly support DVB-T > > > on the original HVR-900, based on up-to-date v4l-dvb and Markus' > > > em2880-dvb (that is to say, something that could hopefully be cleaned > > > up to a mergable state and won't be too hard to keep updated if it > > > doesn't get merged). The current (somewhat messy, still incomplete) > > > tree is at http://www.makomk.com/hg/v4l-dvb-em28xx/ - em2880-dvb.c is > > > particularly bad. I don't have access to DVB-T signals at the moment, > > > but as far as I can tell, it works. Anyone want to test it? General > > > comments? (Other hardware will be added if I have the time, > > > information, and someone willing to test it.) > > > > > > > This is more than incomplete, VBI is missing (nor tested with various > > video standards), and this device is 2 years old and not getting sold > > anymore. > > It's better to keep everything together at mcentral.de (this will very > > likely be moved to an empia domain in near future). > > > > I will join Empia at 1st April 08, adding support for their new > > devices (and also improving support of the older ones). > > > > Markus > > > > Hi, > > I've deliberately avoided adding code for VBI - it's just too > difficult to get right on em28xx due to interesting buffer management > and locking issues. (For example, have you fixed the issue that causes > a kernel panic when recording analog video with MythTV? That was a > particularly interesting one.) In any case, that's another issue > entirely - this code is for DVB-T support. > I'm not aware of that bug, although VBI just needs some finetuning. I got it work with zapping/libzvbi a long time ago. As for now I put it onto the todolist for next month. Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
