Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 07:50:07PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:15:39PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: > > 1.4.2012 13:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: > >> Yep, it was from Fedora. You could always check the Fedora src.rpm > >> for any extra patches they might have there.

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:15:39PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: > 1.4.2012 13:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: >> Yep, it was from Fedora. You could always check the Fedora src.rpm >> for any extra patches they might have there.. >> >>> I'll gladly receive a current, relevant reference that will tell

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Mika Iisakkila
1.4.2012 15:22, Marc kirjoitti: Why don't you cross-compile your kernel on a faster computer ? Because I don't really have any with a suitable distribution installed. And once it takes more than 15 minutes, it's pretty much the same difference if it's two or six or ten hours... I'm not going to

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Marc
On 01/04/2012 13:15, Mika Iisakkila wrote: Well, I googled a bit more, and it seems the actual problem is in dxr3-plugin, not the drivers. The plugin is only able to use OSS (as of Dec.2008, anyway). I'm not willing to waste time fighting with semi-functional compatibility layers, so I'll just k

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Mika Iisakkila
1.4.2012 13:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: Yep, it was from Fedora. You could always check the Fedora src.rpm for any extra patches they might have there.. I'll gladly receive a current, relevant reference that will tell me how to use the em8300 drivers on current Ubuntu without recompiling the

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:47:06PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: > 28.3.2012 22:34, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: >> The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities and kernel >> modules (em8300 and kmod-em8300-* packages) has changed from OSS to ALSA to >> follow upstream > > I googled

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-03-29 Thread Mika Iisakkila
28.3.2012 22:34, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities and kernel modules (em8300 and kmod-em8300-* packages) has changed from OSS to ALSA to follow upstream I googled your quote. Apparently it is from some Fedora release note from 2007 and I

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-03-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:58:15PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: > 27.3.2012 22:49, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: >> I remember using alsa with em8300 already years ago? Was I dreaming? :) > > Perhaps you were using ALSA years ago. As far as I understand, the > audio layer options in the em8300 drivers

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-03-28 Thread Mika Iisakkila
27.3.2012 22:49, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: I remember using alsa with em8300 already years ago? Was I dreaming? :) Perhaps you were using ALSA years ago. As far as I understand, the audio layer options in the em8300 drivers are a no-op nowadays and it will always try to use register_sound_dsp(

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-03-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:54PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: > Quick data points with Finnish YLE DVB subtitles, using a dxr3: > > 1.7.22: everything works > (never tried versions between here, because I was stuck with a 2.6 kernel > back then) > 1.7.25: subtitles are almost black and thus illeg

[vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-03-26 Thread Mika Iisakkila
Quick data points with Finnish YLE DVB subtitles, using a dxr3: 1.7.22: everything works (never tried versions between here, because I was stuck with a 2.6 kernel back then) 1.7.25: subtitles are almost black and thus illegible 1.7.26: same thing 1.7.27: colours OK, but during live programming, m