Re: v4l-utils, dvb-utils, xawtv and alevt

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Am Samstag, den 13.03.2010, 14:43 +0100 schrieb Chicken Shack:
> Am Samstag, den 13.03.2010, 13:34 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 03/13/2010 11:15 AM, Chicken Shack wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 13.03.2010, 07:51 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> On 03/12/2010 08:10 PM, Chicken Shack wrote:
> > >>> 1. Alevt 1.7.0 is not just another tool, but it is instead a
> > >>> self-contained videotext application consisting of three parts:
> > >>> a. alevt, b. alevt-date c. alevt-cap
> > >>>
> > >>> While the packed size of alevt is 78770 the complete size of the
> > >>> dvb-apps as a whole ranges around 350000.
> > >>>
> > >>> I am not against hosting this program at linuxtv.org, but if this
> > >>> decision is made the decision should be an intelligent one: alevt is a
> > >>> separate tree, and any other choice is simply a dumb one.
> > >>> Alevt-1.7.0 needs a lot of external dependencies, while the dvb-apps
> > >>> only need the libc6.

More clever would have been never to rename it from alevt-dvb to alevt.
On the prior you don't have any rights and I seriously doubt you have
any on the later.

> > > Good morning Hans,
> > >
> > 
> > Good afternoon :)
> > 
> > > Definitely not.
> > > 3.95 is analogue only and thus is discontinued as version.
> > > 4.0 pre is the alpha-state tarball that you can get here:

No, 3.95 is "official" and right for patching and 4x was never released.

I pointed to mpeg4ip only as a joke.

> > Ah, ok. Well I must honestly say I've no interest in that I'm doing
> > package maintenance for the 3.95 release in Fedora and I know it
> > needs a lot of patching, AFAIK other distros are doing the same,
> > so it would be good to have / become a new upstream for xawtv 3.95,
> > to have a place to gather all the distro patches mostly and release
> > that, and where new patches if needed can accumulate and new
> > releases can be done from.
> > 
> > 
> > > http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/xawtv-20081014-100645.tar.gz
> > >
> > > Inofficial end of development somewhere in 2005 or 2006, last external
> > > contribution from October 2008.

It was on March 08 2005. You even don't know that?

http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/maintainer.txt

Maybe improve your Pinnacle stuff first, I can point you to a lot on the
TODO list.

Hermann






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