So it needs 2.5 weeks, how much per hour do you estimate? Blessings. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/3/31 Fernando P. García <fernandoparedesgarcia@xxxxxxxxx>: >> May you elaborate about the "huge undertaking" >> >> Fernando. > > The issue is the dvb-usb framework on which the dib0700 driver is > built has absolutely no support for analog. Adding support for a new > bridge (both raw video and PCM audio) is on the order of 100 hours of > work for somebody who knows what they are doing. It includes adding > all the V4L2 hooks and ioctls(), reverse engineering the format of the > delivered video, inserting the video into videobuf, reverse > engineering how audio is provided by the hardware (and how it is > controlled), and creating an ALSA driver to handle the audio feed. > > Oh, and then you have to debug all the edge cases. > > I did it for the au0828 bridge, and I'm in the middle of doing it for > the ngene bridge. It's a royal PITA and at this point no developer is > willing to invest the time/energy to do it for free. > > Devin > > -- > Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs > http://www.kernellabs.com > -- Fernando P. García, http://www.develcuy.com +51 1 9 8991 7871, Calle Santa Catalina Ancha #377, Cusco - Perú ** Before printing this message, please consider your commitment with the environment, taking care of it depends on you. ** Antes de imprimir este mensaje piensa en tu compromiso con el medio ambiente, protegerlo depende de tí. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
