Le dimanche 17 juillet 2011 03:56:36 Mauro Carvalho Chehab, vous avez écrit : > >>> After all, you cannot connect both a DVB-C cable and a DVB-T antenna at > >>> the same time, so the vast majority of users won't ever want to switch > >>> modes at all. > >> > >> You are wrong, actually you can. At least here in Finland some cable > >> networks offers DVB-T too. > > As Antti and Rémi pointed, there are issues with some cable operators. Not > sure how critical is that, but an userspace application changing it via > sysfs might work while the applications are not ported to support both > ways. Telling applications to use sysfs... I can see many ways that you might regret that in the future... Accessing sysfs directly from an application is against all the good practices I thought I had learnt regarding Linux. There is the theoretical possibility that udev gets "explicit" support for Linux DVB and exposes the properties nicely. But that would be rather inconvenient, and cannot be used to change properties. > Antti/Rémi, how the current applications work with one physical frontend > supporting both DVB-T and DVB-C? Do they allow to change channels from one > to the other mode on a transparent way? I don't know. VLC does not care if you switch from DVB-T to DVB-C, to the DVD drive or to YouTube. Each channel (or at least each multiplex) is a different playlist item. So it'll close the all device nodes and (re)open them. There are obviously other applications at stake. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis -- 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
