MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Christian Gusenbauer <c47g at gmx.at> (from Fri, 22 Dec 2006  
11:28:15 +0100):

> Well, I think I implemented almost all of the v4l2 framework. Then I took the
> FreeBSD bktr driver, separated the radio/tuner part and got it working as a
> v4l2 aware driver, too. This driver registers with the framework and
> a /dev/v4l2/radio0 entry is being created. I got fmtools-0.99.0 up and
> running, too.
>
> But there is a difference to the original Linux framework. AFAIR, in Linux,
> one of the kernel structures holds the open file handle, but in FreeBSD
> there's no place for it. So I changed the internals of the framework a bit,
> but the API for the applications should be the same as for Linux.
>
> What's missing is the video part. I had not enough specs about the v4l2
> framework to get it running. And - what was the main problem for me - I did
> not have time to rewrite the bktr driver as v4l2 driver. You know, no
> information about the v4l2 framework and no information about the bktr driver
> internals ... so I gave up.
>
> Then, in August 2005 Julian Elischer (julian at elischer.org) asked me to give
> him my work, because he wanted to do something with it. Maybe he didn't have
> time :-(.

Julian, did you upon improved this? If yes, can you make it available  
(maybe someone is interested to proceed).

> So before someone steps in and invents the wheel again, please contact Julian
> first :-).

Can you make it available somewhere in case Julian did not proceed  
with it? If you don't have a place where to put it online, I offer to  
put it up on my site for you.

Bye,
Alexander.

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