Re: DVB-T receiver support

2008-05-20 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, David Kepplinger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if the kernel has support for DVB-T USB receivers built in? > If yes, one can use an external USB DVB-T tuner to watch TV (even if > the channel isn't really good). > You wouldn't be very mob

DVB-T receiver support

2008-05-20 Thread David Kepplinger
Hi, I'm wondering if the kernel has support for DVB-T USB receivers built in? If yes, one can use an external USB DVB-T tuner to watch TV (even if the channel isn't really good). You wouldn't be very mobile, but that's not that big of a pro

Re: DVB-T

2007-10-24 Thread Mathew Davis
, Michael Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > did not know if it has been mentioned or if i posted this link > http://www.gigabytecm.com/eng/gbc_product.feature.aspx?pid=40 > > Is it possible to add DVB-T Televison to Openmoko Phone? > > Thanks, really I

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Michael Schmidt writes: >On 9/16/07, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You can install Qt if you like, but you cannot assume that all users >> will do that. Qt takes a lot of space > >Qt is the future, would it be possible to pre-install the open libraries? >Or aren t the n

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Sep 2007, at 22:58, Michael Schmidt wrote: you missunderstood me, this is exactly my point, use DVB-T and not DVB-H. There is the Gsmart T600 phone in my first mail linked, which has DVB-T. It works, It works only not, i if you drive in a car with fast speed. Only DVB-T allows an

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
On 9/16/07, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can install Qt if you like, but you cannot assume that all users > will do that. Qt takes a lot of space Qt is the future, would it be possible to pre-install the open libraries? Or aren t the needed classes and widgets of QT

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
> It's DVB-H not DVB-T on a handheld. We've yet to see how each country > handles the system. DVB-T has conditional access for some channels in > the UK. Not sure about DVB-H. you missunderstood me, this is exactly my point, use DVB-T and not DVB-H. There is the Gsmart T600 pho

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 9/16/07, Michael Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/16/07, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote# > > >Openmoko uses GTK+-2.x for GUI which is under LGPL. There is a lot of > im clients available, and there has been a discussion about it in

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Sep 2007, at 22:16, Michael Schmidt wrote: DVB-T does not need any licence agreement, it is just terrestrial recieving on a phone. Therefore the display should be bigger... So this requires not a media player, but as well some hardware adjusting, a DVB-T Reciever chip and a bigger

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
well. < You also run into issues of licencing, the TV phone I used required a licence fee each month, there's no way they would allow such a thing to be open source compatible as people would be able to hack it. > DVB-T does not need any licence agreement, it is just terrestrial re

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: To focus on tv support before movie playback support would be strange. Right now it is important to get the software fast and stable, and add basic support for sms, phone calls, etc. This is only my opinion. Indeed and I've had a

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 9/16/07, Michael Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently the gui is a QT gui. And a wxwidget gui si planned to > implement it into imule application from i2p.net. Dunno, which gui is > better for a openmoko application. > > So I have the question, if openmoko applicartions should have bet

3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
able to watch TV anoymous, without any logging, which channel they watch. Though, this would be offered with DMB, but here as wel it is possible to have Payed-TV. In general, we needs a Phone-TV, which is free and has not to be payed. This offers only DVB-T (and there is as well DVB-T2 (HD) on the