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Mailing Lists

Currently, the main development mailing list is hosted at vger.kernel.org. To subscribe, just send an email to majordomo@vger.kernel.org, with the body of the email containing subscribe linux-media. You may just click here to ask your mailer for generating such email.

We also use a separate mailing list to discuss media workshops and summits.

The linux-media@vger.kernel.org archives are a available on a few sites:

Subscription on the lists hosted at linuxtv.org

In order to contribute to the development, you can subscribe to one of the mailinglists via the Mailman interface.

List archives

We changed the mailing list software from Ecartis to GNU Mailman on Feb. 12 2005, and we now use the list archives integrated into Mailman. Unfortunately this means that the older list archives are not available anymore.

Note: You might find archives for some of the lists elsewhere on the net, e.g. on gmane.org or mail-archive.com.

Mailman3 lists (archives starting from Feb. 12, 2005):

Mailing List (ML)	Status	Comments
vdr	active	About Klaus Schmidinger's Video Disk Recorder VDR and other tools to receive, convert and stream DVB.
linuxtv-commits	active	Announce emails with patches merged upstream. Currently, we don't archive the contents of this ML anymore.
mpeg2	inactive	Old ML about the driver for the Kfir MPEG2 encoder board.
V4L2-library	inactive	Old ML that contains the initial discussions about v4l-utils.

Old mailman2 lists - archives currently unavailable:

media-workshop	inactive	Old ML used for media workshop/summit discussions. Discussions are happening at linux-media@vger.kernel.org
linux-dvb	inactive	Old DVB ML. Replaced by linux-media@vger.kernel.org
linux-dvd	inactive	Old DVD ML. Not used anymore.
linuxtv-cvs	inactive	Commit mails on linuxtv.org CVS
linuxtv-softmpeg	inactive	Old ML used to discuss about development of the ffmpeg/libavcodec based software MPEG decoder library libsoftmpeg.