Re: What ever happened to standardizing signal level?

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On Sunday 30 May 2010 17:18:25 Michael Krufky wrote:
> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 May 2010 09:07:46 VDR User wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Mike Booth <mike_booth76@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> i think someone is too concerned about being precisely accurate. So much so
> >>> that no-one can see the woods for the trees any more.
> >>>
> >>> Its not important to me that accuracy is spot on. I only want to know that
> >>> when tuning the dish I'm getting \better or worse.
> >> I tend to agree with this.  Ultimately what's important is not
> >> necessarily that the readings are 100% accurate, but rather simply put
> >> into some kind of universal scale that provides useful output to the
> >> user.  Many users were happy to see some activity addressing this
> >> issue and unfortunately it seems to have stalled out but I'm not sure
> >> why.  I honestly felt there was enough common ground being discussed
> >> that we'd have a solution by now.
> > 
> > To the best of my knowledge Mike Krufky intended to work on this but he
> > clearly no longer has time to do that work.
> > 
> > Mike, can you perhaps explain what you wanted to do? Hopefully someone else
> > can find the time to implement it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Hans
> > 
> 
> 
> ..."clearly no longer has time" -- please do not speak on my behalf -- I 
> have taken a break from v4l-dvb, and I will return when I have time for 
> it again.

My apologies, that was poorly phrased. 'appears to have little time' would
have been much better. Sorry about that.

> 
> I already did a lot of the work for standardizing signal level, but I 
> need to clean it up, consider new demod modules, push trees and send 
> pull requests.  Right now, correct -- I don't have time for it.  I'll 
> likely get to this by mid-august -- I will have more time again by then.
> 
> I have a plethora of changes in my queue that I have to burn through and 
> merge, including j-rod's lgdt3304 support.  I used to get this stuff 
> done very quickly, but there is a lot of change going on in my life 
> right now... When things settle down here, I'll be back in full force.  :-)

Looking forward to that!

Regards,

	Hans

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Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG, part of Cisco
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