In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810051425330.28540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mika Laitio wrote: LO. >>>> Enclosed are two patches. The clean patch is for a clean VDR 1.7.0 source tree patched with Reinhard's >>>> vdr-1.7.0-h264-syncearly-framespersec-audioindexer-fielddetection-speedup.diff.bz2 patch. The patched patch is for >>>> those who have used the patch from 04-10-2008. >>> >>> I'm about to begin setting up my new VDR with DVB-S2 support, so I was wondering >>> >>> - where is the ultimate S2API driver source? >> >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/ >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/s2/ >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/s2-mfe/ - s2api with multifrontend support > >Steve can you comment the differences between s2 and s2-mfe trees and >whether those are planned to be compined in near future? s2-mfe is work in progress. in fact there are a number of patches here: http://dev.kewl.org/v4l-dvb/patches/ Some are specific to your card and some are related to s2api and some are multi-frontend only. mfe has been tested on cx88 cards but adds support for others which has not been tested extensively and needs evaluation. >To my understanding the only difference between s2 and s2-mfe branches >is the support for hvr-4000 style of devices. So: The only difference from an end-user perspective is how you describe. >- s2: > --> would support only 1 frontend for 1 card at a time. Therefore >one would need to select during the driver loading time whether to want to use >hvr-4000 in DVB-S/S2 mode or in DVB-T mode. > >So in dev-tree following are available: > >[root@tinka vdr-1.7.0]# ls -la /dev/dvb/adapter0/ >total 0 >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2008-10-05 10:56 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 2008-10-05 10:56 ../ >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 4 2008-10-05 10:56 demux0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 5 2008-10-05 10:56 dvr0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 3 2008-10-05 10:56 frontend0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 7 2008-10-05 10:56 net0 > >- s2-mfe: > --> can create multiple fronends for single card eventhoughg only >one of those can in reality to be used simultaneously. Thus one >does not need to select between DVB-S/S2 mode and DVB-T mode >during the driver load time. So following nodes are available: > >[root@tinka vdr-1.7.0]# ls -la /dev/dvb/adapter0/ >total 0 >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 2008-10-05 10:56 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 2008-10-05 10:56 ../ >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 68 2008-10-05 10:56 demux0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 84 2008-10-05 10:56 demux1 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 69 2008-10-05 10:56 dvr0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 85 2008-10-05 10:56 dvr1 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 67 2008-10-05 10:56 frontend0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 83 2008-10-05 10:56 frontend1 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 71 2008-10-05 10:56 net0 >crw-rw----+ 1 lamikr video 212, 87 2008-10-05 10:56 net1 If you want to rename/re-order your frontends then refer to udev rules/script here: http://dev.kewl.org/v4l-dvb/udev/ Plus, if you use an application that can make use of both frontends then you should apply this patch: http://dev.kewl.org/v4l-dvb/patches/s2-mfe-shared-retry-9036.diff Success or failure reports when using this patch are very welcome. Cya! -- // / {:)==={ Darron Broad <darron@xxxxxxxx> \\ \ _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
