Re: [linux-dvb] Locking problem in dvb_demux?

2008-01-24 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:46:30AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan 22 11:00:17 TEMERAIRE kernel: [ 218.547515] = Jan 22 11:00:17 TEMERAIRE kernel: [ 218.547519] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] Jan 22 11:00:17 TEMERAIRE kernel: [ 218.547521]

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007, Steven Toth wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: struct dvb_tuning_param p[3] = { { .id = MODULATION, .val = MOD_8VSB }, { .id = FREQUENCY, .val = 59125 }, { .id = 0 } }; ioctl(fd, DVB_TUNE, p); You can't

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Of course you can have variable length args to ioctl(). It's just that you can't let dvb_usercopy() do the work anymore but have to call copy_from_user() yourself, but I would favor a simple, generic API anytime over one with unnecessary

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi Steve, On Wed, Oct 31, 2007, Steven Toth wrote: You've miss-interpreted my comments. I suggested that the API should be defined, but not necessarily implemented. I was suggesting that we define enough API to generate a test tree and make some progress. Supporting your earlier

Re: [linux-dvb] linuxtv.org fell in the blacklists trap

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007, Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Johannes Stezenbach ha escrit: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007, Luca Olivetti wrote: El Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:41:27 +0100 is the first complaint since I switched to safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net about one year ago) It doesn't surprise me, since those affected

Re: [linux-dvb] linuxtv.org fell in the blacklists trap

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007, Luca Olivetti wrote: El Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:41:27 +0100 is the first complaint since I switched to safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net about one year ago) It doesn't surprise me, since those affected cannot contact you. It's the perfect system to avoid complaints ;-) Bullshit.

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007, Steven Toth wrote: The design goals for me are: 1) We stop trying to predict what the API will need in 5 years, and focus on building a very simplistic ioctl API for getting and setting generic frontend properties, it should be basic enough to deal with any new

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: When Johannes stated: handling multiple streams is as simple as setting a stream id, well it is not that i blame him, the specs look that way. There are couple of ways the same thing is done for example. You apply a wrong one and the API is

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Also, i forgot to mention one more thing, 16APSK is denoted as 4 + 12 APSK, (for the demod) not sure why either. See 5.4.3 Bit mapping into 16APSK constellation. Johannes ___ linux-dvb mailing list

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: If you see H.2 and H.3, the difference is between CCM and VCM (Note: that both are cases of multiple TS's) H.2 (CCM) is applicable for DVB-T muxes. Here there is a HP/LP stream selection in some fashion combined with the merger/slicer where

[linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-10-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi Manu, three weeks have passed since Steve expressed his discomfort with the HVR4000 merge being blocked waiting for multiproto. Can you give us a time frame for when the multiproto merge will happen? Or, alternatively, can we split multiproto into two repositories, one with API + dvb-core

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 API vs. HVR4000: When?

2007-10-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, On Tue, Oct 30, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: three weeks have passed since Steve expressed his discomfort with the HVR4000 merge being blocked waiting for multiproto. Before i state anything, Current DVB-S2 API status: [snip] Thanks, that's useful. Can

Re: [linux-dvb] linuxtv.org fell in the blacklists trap

2007-10-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007, Luca Olivetti wrote: In a misguided attempt to curb spam, someone at linuxtv.org decided to use the sorbs blacklist. ... If you decide to go on relying on blacklists, at least use the one listing confirmed sources of spam, not the broader one using arbitrary and flawed

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 Multiple logical TS on the same frequency

2007-10-15 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I'm very confident the output of the demod is a single TS in all cases, and this has nothing to do with the demux. Maybe, not very sure on that. Also the specifications additionally adds this: 5.2 SDTV and HDTV

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 Multiple logical TS on the same frequency

2007-10-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: You can have MIS in 2 cases again: 1) Transport Streams a) When it is SIS, it is similar to our normal DVB-S transmissions b) When it is flagged MIS in the Baseband Header, we have Multiple Streams. When it is MIS, if the logical streams

Re: [linux-dvb] Future of Multiproto

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2007, Marcel Siegert wrote: can everybody _please_ stop this unnessessary discussion? When a developer deletes his mercurial repositories and announces he's going to rewrite the code to be independent of multiproto, then IMHO it is _necessary_ to find out why, and how to

Re: [linux-dvb] Future of Multiproto

2007-10-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Does that mean that Manu has no intentions to get his multiproto API changes merged? It will be merged When? Why hasn't it been merged months ago when HVR4000 worked? (If so, then wtf was the point of doing them

Re: [linux-dvb] Future of Multiproto

2007-10-09 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007, Artem Makhutov wrote: I am wondering about the future of the Multiproto API. me too -- thanks for asking Will the Multiproto API be part of the upcoming DVB-API, is it just a short time solution to make the DVB-S2 devices work or is Multiproto the new DVB-API? For a

Re: [linux-dvb] Some thoughts and questions

2007-09-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:11:39AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: ... Instead of losing myself in the details of your questions, some background info: 1) LNB drift That said, since we have different LNB LO

Re: [linux-dvb] Some thoughts and questions

2007-09-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: The actual drift is totally irrelevant for the zig-zag scan. Zig-zag is a trial-and-error approach, and only needs to know - the step size (derived from the demod's carrier capture range) - max. the number of steps

Re: [linux-dvb] Some thoughts and questions

2007-09-29 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: ... Instead of losing myself in the details of your questions, some background info: 1) LNB drift - LNBs have a constant error plus a temperature drift (e.g. +/-1MHz error, +/-3Mhz drift for a temperature range of -40 ... +60 °C -- cheap no name

Re: [linux-dvb] Some thoughts and questions

2007-09-29 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: - LNBs have a constant error plus a temperature drift (e.g. +/-1MHz error, +/-3Mhz drift for a temperature range of -40 ... +60 °C -- cheap no name equipment usually worse) This is the old LNB, the one's we use

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi Manu, On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: While being on the V3 frontend API overhaul, i found to much dismay that it would be much better to revamp V4 into a newer API version such as V5, rather than scratching with V3 for ages together, resulting in just unnecessary talks and

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007, Rainer.scherg wrote: - A runtime version check of the API is needed. Currently the API version is determined at compile time, which is useless, when It is necessary in the same way as you have KERNEL_VERSION or GLIB_MAJOR_VERSION etc. distributing binaries

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Wolfgang Wegner wrote: - dvb_fe_type: DVB-S2 is missing and I personally would also like to see ASI here... See my other mail, IMHO we should add the ASI defines at the same time we merge a driver which uses it. - frontend status: - BER is lacking a proper

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: The problem is that, after making something experimental, throwing it out to application authors stating here it is: the API update, again a fix to the API will make anyone furious, nobody wants to keep tinkering forever on the same thing. Exactly,

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007, Steven Toth wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: But after all the discussions, and you and Steve have written drivers which I hope prove the API as working, why do you still think it is experimental? What would it take to make it non-experimental? My take on the patches

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I really don't think there is any problem in releasing API version 3.3 with DVB-S2 support now, then 3.4 with DVB-H, then 3.5 with DVB-T2 etc. And I think it would be wrong to delay DVB-S2 support until you have all

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Of course linuxtv.org being your private server (which you indirectly said in one of the mails) doesn't mean that you can just talk whatever you want ??? I do feel so upset talking about such things. It is such a pathetic state, that the so called

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:50:09AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: If you would like to fix that in V3, i would much appreciate. If you would just like to keep talking only, maybe lets then not talk too much about it. The recording filters are exactly the piece

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: it gets me thinking. Some core developers who I met during the last few weeks (kernel summit, suse conference in czech) told me to go on with it actually because the final plan isn't that bad.. I was referring to your code you posted for

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: The main discussion in this thread was about drivers in userspace are bad because the API will allow binary drivers. The guy who works for Hauppauge (again I also have good contacts at Hauppauge Europe) writes it's bad - for no technical reason.

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: On 9/14/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you care about LinuxTV you'll work with the core subsystem developers to bring your em28xx tree inline. If you don't care then why are you here? It doesn't really work out to work with

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: people do contribute to the em28xx project. ... there's also an active and even problem solving oriented ML available: http://mcentral.de/pipermail/em28xx/ Also if you look at the mercurial code you'll see several people contributing to that

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: We currently have an implementation that works, although it works by downloading several firmwares for several devices or even several countries. This is not what I want to have in future since it's not needed and it's also hard to manage for

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: Let's add the LKML to this. On 9/13/07, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see any technical reason why tuner drivers should be moved to userspace. Looking at

Re: [linux-dvb] Asys P7131 Hybrid: DVB out of range

2007-09-06 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007, Andreas Oberritter wrote: Quoting from the manpage of strtol(): The strtol() function returns the result of the conversion, unless the value would underflow or overflow. If an underflow occurs, strtol() returns LONG_MIN. If an overflow occurs, strtol() returns

Re: [linux-dvb] [RFC] Hybrid tuner refactoring, phase 1

2007-08-20 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Michael Krufky wrote: -- this is a system-wide addition to the dvb_frontend structure, because we are adding analog tuning functionality to the dvb_frontend. Analog tuning is public to DVB core ? I don't think so. It would've been correct, if

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] add device node locking possibility to dvbcore

2007-08-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007, Oliver Endriss wrote: Does anyone know, why dvb_shutdown_timeout was introduced initially? That was a (IMHO stupid) hack by Holger with the purpose of speeding up tuning with szap a little bit by avoiding the FE_INIT after re-opening the frontend device. I.e. Holger's

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] add device node locking possibility to dvbcore

2007-08-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007, Oliver Endriss wrote: Questions: - Why should dvb_shutdown_timeout==0 disable sleep mode? The use case was to watch video without any software running. Just program the hardware once and let it do it's job. Some people want that although I don't think it's really useful.

Re: [linux-dvb] extra switch for tzap, czap and szap - new tarball and Debian package

2007-07-22 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007, Uwe Bugla wrote: As announced I've built a revised tarball plus a Debian package of the current dvb-apps repository, implying your patchset (i. e. human readable characters as a switch for szap, tzap and czap. Unfortunately both packages were rejected without

Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: On 7/10/07, Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it won't

Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:18:35PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote: Remember all that code could have been in the kernel for around 1 year without breaking any device if these few core people (and there are really only very few ones 5) wouldn't have tried to hit it down. This the bad linuxtv

Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:49:30AM +1000, Julian wrote: Since this disscussion is public... I'm going to put in my 2 cents. If you actually read his posts - Like alot of end users are. Its the flames and personal attacks that are coming from the group mentality here (im sure theres a wiki

Re: [linux-dvb] removal em28xx from linuxtv.org

2007-06-29 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007, Hans Verkuil wrote: I've been following this whole process for quite some time now and also tried to help out. I've come to the conclusion that it is purely due to bad chemistry between various personalities. Technically this stuff should have been merged a year ago

Re: [linux-dvb] removal em28xx from linuxtv.org

2007-06-29 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: On 6/28/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, it is a good idea to have the manufacturer supporting their drivers. However, it won't make any sense to allow Empiatech to touch on low-level drivers for hardware not

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-06-06 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:16:26PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Then I2C_M_STOP still makes sense, but the patch should document that it's used only a workaround for broken hardware. Well, I tried but no one on the i2c list liked

Re: [linux-dvb] question about the zap utilities ,,, why so many?

2007-06-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, CityK wrote: So there is: - zap ... intended for developers - azap ... for ATSC and N.A dig. cable (STCE 07) - czap ... for DVB-C - szap ... for DVB-S - szap2 ... for DVB-S2 - tzap ... for DVB-T Is there any technical reason why these 6 utilities aren't blended

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-06-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007, Oliver Endriss wrote: e9hack wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: e9hack wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: Trent Piepho wrote: What the stv0297 wants is: S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] P S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P The STV0297 is just a normal demod like the others, nothing

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB Networking Module

2007-05-31 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, On Sun, May 27, 2007, Christian Prähauser wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007, Christian Praehauser wrote: The branch is available at http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~cpraehaus/hg.cgi/v4l-dvb. What you did to include/linux/dvb/net.h is not allowed. You must

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB Networking Module

2007-05-31 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
BTW, what's this? +source drivers/media/dvb/dvbloop/Kconfig Johannes ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB Networking Module

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, May 16, 2007, Christian Praehauser wrote: The branch is available at http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~cpraehaus/hg.cgi/v4l-dvb. This repository seems to be corrupted: $ hg clone http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~cpraehaus/hg.cgi/v4l-dvb destination directory: v4l-dvb requesting all changes

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-05-20 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, May 19, 2007, Trent Piepho wrote: I've written a patch that implements I2C_M_STOP. It would be used like this: char buf1[2] = {0x0b,0x3c}, buf2[1]; struct i2c_msg msgs[2] = { { .addr = 0x61, .buf = buf1, .len = 2, .flags = I2C_M_STOP }, { .addr = 0x61, .buf = buf2,

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-05-20 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, May 20, 2007, e9hack wrote: With the attached patch, it works for the stv0297 functions. It doesn't solve the problem, why I've wrote the initial patch. I need a dump from the registers of the stv0297. I've attach a second patch. stv0297_attach() inserts a wrapper between

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-05-18 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, May 18, 2007, e9hack wrote: the stv0297 doesn't understand the repeated start condition on the i2c-bus from a saa7146. The current frontend driver (stv0297.c) handles this problem by splitting the read request into a write and a read request. Other applications (e.g. i2cdump) are

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-05-18 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:48:13PM +0200, e9hack wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: According to linux/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.txt the correct way to get a STOP condition between two I2C messages is send them in seperate I2C transactions. I don't find this description in i2c

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-05-18 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, May 18, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:48:13PM +0200, e9hack wrote: IMHO, it isn't possible to split a read request into a single write and a single read request outside of the core device. The device must be locked during both

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [RFC/PATCHES] xc3028 hybrid tuner, em28xx/em2880-dvb, saa7134, cx88

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi Markus, On Thu, May 17, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: On 5/17/07, Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't get me wrong -- I am not suggesting that we duplicate this code and leave it in that state forever. What I am suggesting is that we go about this change in small steps.

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [RFC/PATCHES] xc3028 hybrid tuner, em28xx/em2880-dvb, saa7134, cx88

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, May 17, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: I will not go back anymore, instead a fork off seems to be a good solution if the linuxtv project wants to stay stuck where it is at the moment it should do so. Yep, we all know by know the linux-dvb crowd is not an easy one. So what? If your

Re: [linux-dvb] Simple question I hope

2007-05-07 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, May 04, 2007, Julian WILSON wrote: We are implementing the current linux dvb video and audio devices in software for a media centre we are building. We are uncertain of the best way to access the functions provided by the core to implement the data paths needed. The first

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [video4linux-cvs] [hg:v4l-dvb] Add support for Opera S1- DVB-USB

2007-04-20 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Argh! Too much flood for two simple defines! I _think_ the point Mike was driving at is that there is an established coding pattern of having a struct foo_config { u8 i2c_addr; ... }; If you use that then the #define is (at

[linux-dvb] Re: [Proposal] Unification of the v4L dvb wikis

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007, David Liontooth wrote: Johannes Stezenbach, if I'm not mistaken, is in charge of the DVB wiki -- what do you think? In charge as in do software updates, check for Wiki spam etc. I haven't contributed significant content. Whatever is fine for the Wiki users is fine by me

[linux-dvb] EFF Europe petition against IPRED2

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, IANAL so forgive me if it is irrelevant, but to me it seems important enough to pass the information on. Quoting http://www.copycrime.eu/ : On April 24th, the European Parliament will vote on IPRED2, the Second Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive. ... If IPRED2 passes in its

[linux-dvb] Re: Hybrid tuner proposal (V4L/DVB)

2007-04-16 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I believe many people (users) would like em28xx to be merged asap, so I'm trying to find a way how it could be done. IMHO, code that which is bad should be fixed and then only be accepted into the project. I don't see

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Hybrid tuner proposal (V4L/DVB)

2007-04-16 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes, you probably understand now. Well, you want to be DVB maintainer, so please try to think like one. How can you serve the project better? [ ] By putting all personal issues aside and merge em28xx anyway, even if it means getting your

[linux-dvb] Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] DVB Maintainer

2007-04-16 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: Would have appreciated your stand, if you had the same stand on other threads as well. (IIRC your stand on the DVB-S2/multiproto threads were completely opposite. You wanted

[linux-dvb] Re: [Proposal] Unification of the v4L dvb wikis

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007, CityK wrote: Time, after time, after time, I have seen users express confusion about information fragmentation. Lets put an end to this. I propose that there is no better time then the present to begin the merger of the v4l dvb wikis together under one roof - the

[linux-dvb] Re: [Proposal] Unification of the v4L dvb wikis

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007, CityK wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: But I think there's no way to do it without losing history (or at least the correct user attribution of changes). The export pages function (under special pages) seems to imply that it would work, but I'm not sure (or clear

[linux-dvb] Re: Hybrid tuner proposal (V4L/DVB)

2007-04-10 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, [big snip] C'mon guys, let's leave the past behind us and not start fighting again. I believe many people (users) would like em28xx to be merged asap, so I'm trying to find a way how it could be done. It is unfortunate that em28xx depends on the hybrid tuner API design, but we have to live

[linux-dvb] Re: Hybrid tuner proposal (V4L/DVB)

2007-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: I sent this proposal to several individual developers already around 1-2 weeks ago, and received several comments, maybe I should give it a try to push a very last discussion about it. Video4Linux/DVB Hybrid Tuner Support

Re: [linux-dvb] DSM-CC Synchronized Download Protocol

2007-03-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Thomas Lagemann wrote: I'm looking for information in the DSM-CC Synchronized Download Protocol. In an amandment to MPEG-2 Systems this is stated to be a synchronous method of delivering data in an MPEG-2 stream. It's said that the data is inserted into DSM-CC

Re: [linux-dvb] [RFC] Reviewed development procedures DVBMaintainer

2007-03-09 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi all, I've been thinking hard the last days what I could possibly say that would make things better and not worse. Mission Impossible :-( I apologize in advance if I step on someone's toes. But I'm not going to point fingers at anyone as I think this isn't a single person's fault but more of

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-09 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
PROTECTED] Acked-By: Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't test this but to me it looks good. Mauro, could you please pick it up and keep it in the linuxtv.org repository for a while for testing? Thanks, Johannes --- On 04/03/07 15:41, Andreas Oberritter wrote: please send an updated

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:58:14AM +0100, Oliver Endriss wrote: Simon Arlott wrote: Is any part of the patch going to be applied? I mentioned this problem in September last year and it looks like it's existed for years (the semaphore locking did the same thing). Well, I hoped that

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:19:01PM +0100, Oliver Endriss wrote: From 'Linux Device Drivers' (replace 'down' by 'mutex_lock'): | ... | down decrements the value of the semaphore and waits as long as need | be. down_ interruptible does the same, but the operation is | interruptible. The

[linux-dvb] DVB/V4L/VDR MediaWiki update

2007-02-25 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, I updated the DVB, V4L and VDR Wikis on linuxtv.org to MediaWiki version 1.9.3. If you experience any problems due to the update, then please let me know about it. Thanks, Johannes ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB/V4L/VDR MediaWiki update

2007-02-25 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Oliver Endriss wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I updated the DVB, V4L and VDR Wikis on linuxtv.org to MediaWiki version 1.9.3. If you experience any problems due to the update, then please let me know about it. Don't know whether

Re: [linux-dvb] mailing list cleanup

2007-01-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Patrick Boettcher wrote: Can you please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the linux-dvb@linuxtv.org list? Everytime I send a mail to the list, the mailserver kindly answers directly to me, that this address does not exist anymore. Done. Johannes

Re: [linux-dvb] MPE pointer field too big

2006-10-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006, Harnois Anne-Sophie wrote: Some of the MPEG-TS packets I receive contain a pointer field bigger than 184 (continuity counter is correct). How to explain that? Shouldn't Pointer field be inside 0 and 184? Any comments? Are you sure PUSI is set in those packets? If not,

Re: [linux-dvb] Where to find specifications for user-defined descriptor tags?

2006-10-07 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006, Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 06, 2006, Robert Schlabbach wrote: Obviously the broadcasters must have released the specifications to at least some receiver makers for implementation. Hm, it might be possible

Re: [linux-dvb] Where to find specifications for user-defined descriptor tags?

2006-10-06 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006, Robert Schlabbach wrote: Obviously the broadcasters must have released the specifications to at least some receiver makers for implementation. Hm, it might be possible that these descriptors are handled by some MHP application only. Johannes

Re: [linux-dvb] Big changes in the DVB-USB-framework (for 2.6.18 ?)

2006-09-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006, Patrick Boettcher wrote: Nevertheless I would like to have all this stuff ready to be included in 2.6.18 . Is it too late? Yes. At -rc7 Linus will only take small bugfixes. Johannes ___ linux-dvb mailing list

Re: [linux-dvb] [patch 3/6] rename scan into dvbscan again

2006-09-07 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: Change got lost during Makefile refactoring It isn't necessary to rename to source files for renaming the binaries. A small Makefile patch would be better. Thanks, Johannes ___ linux-dvb

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:06:44PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006, Steven Toth wrote: Manu had posted a large set of patches on July 25, and got zero responses, neither positive nor negative. Someone needs to review and test

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-29 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:26:46PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: Per Dalén wrote: What has happened to Manus hg-repositories? I cannot pull/sync them anymore. I deleted my repositories at linuxtv.org, because of (1) a post on v4l-dvb-maintainer from Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-29 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006, Steven Toth wrote: Manu, I've been working on a 3 week old tree you gave me from thadathil.net. Thanks for this. I've added support for a new S2 demod and tuner (for the WinTV-HVR4000). I'd like to get the entire tree up on linuxtv.org, at least people can

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Holger Waechtler wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: (BTW, typedefs are deprecated for kernel code (only allowed for explicitly opaque data types)). Until now, I've been contested: 1) buf instead of buf 2) // comments 3) use of typedef the funny part is that 1) I copiedpasted

[linux-dvb] Re: Types and capabilites for HDTV ATSC.

2004-08-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Holger Waechtler wrote: Mac Michaels wrote: I am the owner of a FunsionHDTV 3 Gold card. I have the analog TV and audio working with my modificatons to the CX88 driver. I am working on the Digital TV (HDTV ATSC) and want to integrate it into DVB as I seems to be a good fit. The

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Video V4 API

2004-08-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2004 12:00:12: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Added extra option DVB_VIDEO_CAP_PROFILE_LEVEL to capabilities to allow the decoder's [EMAIL PROTECTED] upper operation to be determined using the ioctl DVB_VIDEO_GET_CAPS. Armed with

[linux-dvb] Re: Progress on specifications for Twinhan/KWorld/CTS DVB-T USB Box

2004-08-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Patrick Boettcher wrote: DiBCom also provides a firmware for this device. Is it useful to put it in a .h file and abandon the firmware_class usage in the usb-driver? What does the kernel policy says about it? Kernel policy says that all firmware must be removed from the kernel. Some

[linux-dvb] Re: Types and capabilites for HDTV ATSC.

2004-08-05 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Holger Waechtler wrote: struct dvb_atsc_parameters { fe_modulation_t modulation; /* anything more? maybe 8VSB or 16VSB? */ }; struct dvb_frontend_parameters { __u32 frequency; fe_spectral_inversion_t inversion; union { struct

[linux-dvb] Re: RE : Re: small modification to scan util from dvb-apps

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Eric DEZERT wrote: Can this modification be included in dvb-apps ? No. dvbscan outputs MHz, and VDR reads MHz. You patch would break it. Johannes --- /tmp/dump-vdr.c 2004-08-03 07:55:13.0 +0200 +++ /root/dvb-apps/util/scan/dump-vdr.c 2004-07-17 01:08:08.0 +0200 @@ -83,7

[linux-dvb] Re: small modification to scan util from dvb-apps

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Roberto Ragusa wrote: diff -ur /aaa/bbb/ccc-1.3 /aaa/bbb/ccc-1.3_modified mypatch.diff (u=human readable, r=recursive) Please always add -p (--show-c-function), it makes patches much more readable. Johannes

[linux-dvb] Re: Tuning data for all swedish transmitters

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Eddie Olsson wrote: All swedish stations and transmitters in a single file. I can split this up if that would suite you guys better. Yes, please. Give me patch that I can apply, or a tar ball with properly named files. Johannes

[linux-dvb] Re: Possible bug in dvb_frontend.c [Was: Video datastream brocken - origin (maybe) found]

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Alfred Zastrow wrote: I tried this patch in the 2.4_branch of dvb-kernel and it doesn't solves my problem with my two rev. 1.3-cards. The first (vdr-)recording after a cold boot got disturbed. My workaround right now is the usage of the (attached) old frontend driver. It doesn't help if

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We were pretty sloppy when accepting patches in the past, however DVB code is under public scrutiny on lkml, and C++ comments are not accepted for kernel code. OK, I simply tried to use the style of the rest of the file

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Holger Waechtler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: struct dvb_fe_scan_spec { unsigned freq_start; unsigned freq_end; unsigned srate_start; unsigned srate_end; } A similiar approach works for the mt352 DVB-T demod, there the srate fields are not

[linux-dvb] Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: small modification to scan utilfrom dvb-apps

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Sergei Haller wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Johannes (J) wrote: J ... and VDR reads MHz ... man 5 vdr: Frequency The transponder frequency (as an integer). For DVB-S this value is in MHz. For DVB-C and DVB-T it can be given either in

[linux-dvb] Re: Possible bug in dvb_frontend.c [Was: Video datastream brocken - origin (maybe) found]

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Alfred Zastrow wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I tried this patch in the 2.4_branch of dvb-kernel and it doesn't solves my problem with my two rev. 1.3-cards. The first (vdr-)recording after a cold boot got disturbed. My workaround right now is the usage of the (attached) old frontend

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Roberto Ragusa wrote: OK, so I propose this: - you use FE_SET_FRONTEND as usual - then, you call FE_SET_AUTO_SEARCH passing something as struct dvb_autosearch { fe_autosearch_t parameter; __u32 lower limit; __u32 higher limit; } typedef enum

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