[linux-dvb] Re: dvb kernel

2003-10-12 Thread Jamie Honan
> * What is the current status of the driver? Just a correction if using 2.4. bttv snapshot bttv9-20031009.tar.gz has a problem, but bttv9-20031006.tar.gz worked OK for me. brad had the following fix: diff -urN bttv-0.9.12/bttv-if.c bttv-0.9.12.new/bttv-if.c --- bttv-0.9.12/bttv-if.c 2003-

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb kernel

2003-10-12 Thread Jamie Honan
> > You apply the files in my tarball into the dvb-kernel stuff > > you check out, until it is checked into CVS. We really are very close > > to checking in. Now checked in. You can get the driver if you get dvb-kernel from CVS. > * What is the current status of the driver? Well, it works for me

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb kernel

2003-10-12 Thread Dmitri Katchalov
Quoting Jamie Honan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In general, the dvb-kernel CVS is the latest bleeding edge. > It's not quite obvious where it is, but > http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ > shows how the check it out. I use the dvb-kernel tree. > > There are a bunch of apps in the DVB tree, for com

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting IR-codes directly from DVB-S?

2003-10-12 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Sunday 12 October 2003 16:30, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:35, Holger Waechtler wrote: > > > >>Oliver Endriss wrote: > >> > >>>The current implementation has a number of restrictions: > >>>- Permissions of /proc/av7110_ir cannot be changed wit

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb kernel

2003-10-12 Thread Jamie Honan
> Can you give a bit more info on the Twinhan driver? > What's the current status and where do I get the latest > sources? Do you have the documentation on the I2C format? > > I'm pretty new to all this DVB stuff and I'm basically > looking for a good starting point. Holger mentions where I am

[linux-dvb] Re: [Solution] Bug report vdr-1.2.5 - error while reading timers.conf

2003-10-12 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Juergen Sauer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2003 12:23 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: > > > > If I add a timer using the vdr menue the vdr destroys > > > it's own timers.conf file, so that vdr crashes/quits, > > > Please keep very clearly apa

[linux-dvb] Re: [Solution] Bug report vdr-1.2.5 - error while reading timers.conf

2003-10-12 Thread Juergen Sauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2003 12:23 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: > > If I add a timer using the vdr menue the vdr destroys > > it's own timers.conf file, so that vdr crashes/quits, > Please keep very clearly apart whether it _crashes_ or > _quits_ - th

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB in 2.6.0-test7 (Problems with DVB-S + DVB-T system)

2003-10-12 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
John Knottenbelt wrote: Seppo, Check in the kernel configuration menu: "Code maturity level options" and make sure that "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware" is NOT checked. This should enable the tda1004x frontend module option in the DVB drivers menu. Thank

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting IR-codes directly from DVB-S?

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Wolfgang Fritz wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Oliver Endriss wrote: [cut] Additionally, I'd like to implement multiple keymaps per device. A user might want to use different remote control units, which use the same protocol but different device addresses. In this case we need a keymap per devic

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting IR-codes directly from DVB-S?

2003-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Fritz
Holger Waechtler wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > [cut] > >>Additionally, I'd like to implement multiple keymaps per device. >>A user might want to use different remote control units, which use the >>same protocol but different device addresses. In this case we need >>a keymap per device address

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB in 2.6.0-test7 (Problems with DVB-S + DVB-T system)

2003-10-12 Thread John Knottenbelt
Seppo, Check in the kernel configuration menu: "Code maturity level options" and make sure that "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware" is NOT checked. This should enable the tda1004x frontend module option in the DVB drivers menu. On Sunday 12 October 2003 1

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
oh-ough, I should write my mails slower: s/\/here/g, s/\/allocate/g. Hope that was all. sorry. Holger Waechtler wrote: Michael Hunold wrote: In theory, you can write to user space memory from device drivers easily. In practise, most hardware has some sort of DMA limitations (for example 16k al

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
one more remark that came to my mind: Holger Waechtler wrote: Michael Hunold wrote: But before thinking about this, someone should really investigate if these memcpy()s are *really* a problem for system performance. Sure, there is a lot of copying going on, but I guess that most of the *real*

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Michael Hunold wrote: In theory, you can write to user space memory from device drivers easily. In practise, most hardware has some sort of DMA limitations (for example 16k aligned memory), so this is not an option unfortunately, because you cannot control memory allocation for userspace. even i

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Ralph Metzler wrote: Holger Waechtler writes: > If we want to remove even more ambinguities we should distinguish in the > demux API between general purpose filter banks and decoder-attached > filter banks. > > Maybe this would even simplify using the API since the routing might get > m

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Ralph, > I like the idea of a source based routing in Michael's approach (we've > been discussing this issue before in another thread some months ago), > the idea not to specify input and output device of the demux but instead > specify a stream source in the decoder. This removes som

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Michael Hunold wrote: Hello Holger, I like the idea of a source based routing in Michael's approach (we've been discussing this issue before in another thread some months ago), the idea not to specify input and output device of the demux but instead specify a stream source in the decoder. This

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Michael Hunold wrote: Please refer to the fundamental difference I desribed in my mail to Ralph: Different demux devices with included filter capabilities suggest to the user that there's hardware behind it. This is currently not the case for any hardware out there. It is. Whenever we implemente

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting IR-codes directly from DVB-S?

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:35, Holger Waechtler wrote: Oliver Endriss wrote: The current implementation has a number of restrictions: - Permissions of /proc/av7110_ir cannot be changed without recompiling the driver, i.e. chown/chmod do not work. - Only one keymap can be

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting IR-codes directly from DVB-S?

2003-10-12 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:35, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > > The current implementation has a number of restrictions: > > - Permissions of /proc/av7110_ir cannot be changed without recompiling > > the driver, i.e. chown/chmod do not work. > > - Only one keymap can be

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Holger, I like the idea of a source based routing in Michael's approach (we've been discussing this issue before in another thread some months ago), the idea not to specify input and output device of the demux but instead specify a stream source in the decoder. This removes some ambingiut

[linux-dvb] Re: Bug report vdr-1.2.5 - error while readingtimers.conf

2003-10-12 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
"Flo G." wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to this list and subscribed, because i had the same error > messages. The scan utility creates channel files with lines like these: > ProSieben:12480:v:S19.2E:27500:255:256;257:32:0:898:1:0:0 > in the channels.conf delivered with vdr, i have: > Pro-7:12480:v:S1

[linux-dvb] Re: Bug report vdr-1.2.5 - error while reading timers.conf

2003-10-12 Thread Flo G.
Hi, I'm new to this list and subscribed, because i had the same error messages. The scan utility creates channel files with lines like these: ProSieben:12480:v:S19.2E:27500:255:256;257:32:0:898:1:0:0 in the channels.conf delivered with vdr, i have: Pro-7:12480:v:S19.2E:27500:255:256;257:32:0:898

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Johannes, > Ralph wrote: Again, this depends on the hardware. The current API V4 proposition basically treats each filter as if it is a streaming device. For software filters this is no problem except that DMA is probably out of the question. Some hardware only has two recording devices whi

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Ralph, > - specialized APID/VPID/PCR filters for each mpeg decoder (so they > technically belong to the mpeg demux/decoder, not to the other demux > devices) But they do (I guess you are talking about NEC hardware?!). Might be. ;-) They have to be assigned to one of the demuxes and th

[linux-dvb] ARM crash when tuning to "MPEG2 HD"

2003-10-12 Thread Oliver Endriss
Hi, if you tune to the "MPEG2 HD" service on ASTRA 19.2E, the arm will crash immediately. :-( Channel settings: MPEG2 HD:12168:v:S19.2E:27500:308+8190:256,257:0:0:21100:0:0:0 I would not expect that the firmware can decode HDTV properly, but it should not crash imho. Can this be fixed? Oliver

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb kernel

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Hi Dmitri, Dmitri Katchalov wrote: Hi Brad, Can you give a bit more info on the Twinhan driver? What's the current status and where do I get the latest sources? Do you have the documentation on the I2C format? I've got Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T (terrestrial) card and I'd like to make it work un

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb kernel

2003-10-12 Thread Dmitri Katchalov
Quoting Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manu Abraham wrote: > > Hi, > >Could anyone tell me whether i require a dvb kernel for kernel > > 2.6.0-test6/7 for a Visionplus(VP-1020) card from Twinhan to run ? If so > > how can i use the card ? > > > > Regards, > > Manu > > There is a dr

[linux-dvb] DVB in 2.6.0-test7 (Problems with DVB-S + DVB-T system)

2003-10-12 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
My TT Budget2-S seem to work with built-in DVB support in 2.6.0-test7. However I can't enable build of tda1004x frontend module from "make menuconfig". Is it a bug? BR, Seppo -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: Bug report vdr-1.2.5 - error while reading timers.conf

2003-10-12 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Juergen Sauer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Moin, > My vdr installation tends to crash by itself. > I got my channels from the scan util (scan -o vdr) and > pasted it to channels.conf. > > If I add a timer using the vdr menue the vdr destroys > it's own timers.co

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting IR-codes directly from DVB-S?

2003-10-12 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: The current implementation has a number of restrictions: - Permissions of /proc/av7110_ir cannot be changed without recompiling the driver, i.e. chown/chmod do not work. - Only one keymap can be loaded for all devices. What about loading keymaps using the ioctl interface of