[mythtv-users] anyone use wizd w/ mythtv?

Reza Naima reza at reza.net
Thu Oct 20 23:41:14 EDT 2005


Can you play mythtv recording using it?  

Reza

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:46:54AM -0700, Tim Fenn sent me this...
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:34:58AM -0500, David Schmidt wrote:
> > Well, if they truly are all that same error message ("pointer targets
> > ... differ in signedness"), you can safely ignore them.  strcpy is the
> > string copy function.  In C/C++, strings are groups of characters, and
> > characters are actually a numeric type and can thus be signed or
> > unsigned.  When we are treating them like 'a' 'b' 'c' instead of
> > (ASCII) 97, 98, 99, it sign really doesn't matter.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the default signed or unsigned for characters (if the
> > programmer doesn't specify) varies between compilers (especially older
> > ones).  Most likely, the programmer is passing signed/unsigned
> > (possibly by default) strings to the function, but g++ thinks it
> > should be unsigned/signed.
> > 
> > So you are likely ok.
> > 
> > By the way, I've never used wizd.
> > 
> > On 10/19/05, Reza Naima <reza at reza.net> wrote:
> > > I got a linkplayer2 and I'm trying to get wizd setup on the backend, but
> > > all the docs seem to be in japanese and the google translator doesn't
> > > seem to do a good job.  I did follow the dogs as well as I could, but it
> > > seems that the wisd souce i have is compiled for the wrong endian as I
> > > got tons of erros like this one :
> > >
> > > source/wizd_thumbnail.c:737: warning: pointer targets in passing
> > > argument 1 of 'strcpy' differ in signedness
> > >
> > > It did compile, but I really dont trust it.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me to any docs, or have any info that might help?
> > >
> 
> I've given up on the "official" wizd, I use a hacked version
> specifically for the LP2:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/flipflop7146/wizd.html
> 
> never had any problems with it.
> 
> HTH,
> Tim
> 
> -- 
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