[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-users] DVB support

Ben Bucksch linux.news at bucksch.org
Fri Jul 11 16:28:53 EDT 2003


(moving form mythtv-users to to mythtv-dev)

Zaheer Abbas Merali wrote:

> This has required an additional class: dvbCards that looks after the
> cards resources, as frontend state needs to be tracked.

Zaheer, could you please send some intermediate (non-working) patch? I 
am not sure why an additional class is needed.



(Almost) full quote:
Zaheer Abbas Merali wrote on mythtv-users:

> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 17:59, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
>> zaheer talked about trying to fix other problems (avcodec crashing 
>> during LiveTV channel switching; the pid filter / use_ts=1), but I 
>> don't know, if he produced any further fixes or had any further results.
>>
>> Some other people promised to work on the DVB code during this 
>> summer, IIRC, but I haven't seen anything of them.
>
> I have had to re-write some of the structure, so it works with all of
> the drivers.  The dvb-kernel driver that is in 2.5.x (and can also be
> built for 2.4.x kernel) and the standard stable DVB driver.
>
> This has required an additional class: dvbCards that looks after the
> cards resources, as frontend state needs to be tracked.  I have got the
> dvb channel class done and tested and have the code that is to go into
> the dvb recorder class working outside of myth, so it just needs to be
> merged into that and then tested.  I believe the changes I have done
> will fix the livetv crashes using dvb.





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