MythTV (was: Possible FreeBSD port?)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting usleepless at gmail.com (from Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:32 +0100):

> Dear Alexander, List,
>
> 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.

Bye,
Alexander.

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