[mythtv] Should I add a new cardtype to the database?

Bryan Bennetts bbennetts at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Apr 21 19:50:06 UTC 2006


On Friday 21 Apr 2006 20:29, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 21 April 2006 3:29 pm, Bryan Bennetts wrote:
> > On Friday 21 Apr 2006 20:04, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > Because of that, I don't really want another cardtype/recording
> > > class/etc. I imagine the differences are only in the setup routines?
> >
> > Yeah, the IVTV_IOC_[GS]_CODEC bits, need replacing with
> > VIDIOC_[GS]_MPEGCOMP. Also a.t.m. the number of available stream types in
> > v4l isn't quite as large as IVTV.  I hadn't got it all working yet, but
> > thought I'd get the database side setup as I fiddled with the output...
> >
> > Fair enough, if you don't want the addition that's cool - don't get me
> > wrong I'm all for me not doing work ;-) I shall revert back to a
> > non-editted MythTv and use the cx88 patch that contains IVTV ioctls.
>
> Heh.  I just meant it shouldn't be hard to simply detect which setup
> routines to use based on what ioctls actually work - I don't see a need for
> a new cardtype/recording class to do that.
>

:-) My inherent lasiness coming out there.  Yeah, I can see what you mean - 
I'll have a tinker at some point this week. 

Cheers, Bryan.



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