MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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On Thursday, 21 December 2006 at  7:46:42 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting usleepless at gmail.com (from Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:32 +0100):
>> On 12/20/06, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
>>> Quoting Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking at gmail.com> (from Wed, 20 Dec
>>> 2006 11:42:08 +1100):
>>>
>>>> I'm all digital, and as far as I'm aware, there's no settled
>>>> kernel API for DVB-T cards (or video really, in general) for
>>>> FBSD.
>>>
>>> Here's a proposal:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jmg/videobsd.html
>>
>> while i understand the urge to define a multimedia-framework for BSD,
>> i think it's too little too late.
>>
>> i believe the proper way to propell BSD into multimedia is to adopt
>> V4L(2). i made the multimedia/pvrxxx driver V4L2 compatible, and made
>> mythtv compile and run. now it just works.
>>
>> i don't particular like V4L(2), but me thinks it's the only way.
>
> Free stuff which is better than less good stuff is always the enemy of
> the less good stuff. Let's call it video4unix and see what happens.
> Lobby a little bit in the opensolaris camp, and you may even gain some
> kind of commercial interest behind it. I don't say we should not make
> existing drivers v4lX compliant, I just say we should not block
> inventions. If someone is interested in doing it, let him do it. If it
> is more easy to use and/or offers more requested features, I'm sure it
> will be used.

I think I agree with both of you :-)

On the one hand, Yet Another Standard is probably a bad idea.
Whatever we come up with should be relatively compatible with V4L.

On the other hand, improvements are not a bad idea; ideally they
should be of a form that the V4L people would be prepared to take on
board.

The real issue, though, is: who is going to do this work?  I only have
limited time, and I haven't seen much activity from others in this
area.  Given that, we shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel.

Greg
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