[linux-dvb] Re: DTV - New (minor) Release 1.2

[Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>]

Reiner Rosin schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> First of all: Great piece of software :)
> 
> I took a quick look at the new DTV and have some infos/questions:
> 
Hi Reiner,

> 1) when doing "make install" the file "key_definition.dcl" wasn't copied
> to the dist-dir (didn't examine that, but I suppose you just forgot
> to include that in the makefile)
>
Yes, you are right (grrr)...please add 'key_definition.dcl' to the DTV_CONF
variable in 'src/dtv/Makefile'.

> 2) although I changed NO_DATABASE in the makefile to '1', the #ifndef NO_DATABASE
> statement in database.c succeeded and tried to compile with DB-support
> (had this error with earlier versions....)
>
This works perfectly for me ! If I set NO_DATABASE to 1, there is no database
support compiled in...don't know what your problem is. For a workaround you
could just change all '#ifndef NO_DATABASE' to '#ifdef 0', there should be only
a few of them within the code of database.c

> 3) question: is the size of the videotext-window limited due to the limited
> size of osd-bitmaps in the driver?
>
Yes, unfortunately it is. There have been discussions about this topic (to
define a driver switch to increase the OSD memory and similar) a few months ago,
but such a switch was never introduced. I thought about transferring the
videotext to MPEG frames, but didn't implement it until now.

> 4) if diseqc is enabled (I'm using two satellites here), is there alway
> a diseqc message sent or just when switching channels from different
> satellites? I ask this, because I noticed that my old channel-switching-bug
> doesn't occure with DTV? I think, I will have a closer look at your
> channel-switching code tomorrow.
> 
There is always a diseqc message sent. This is, because I have noticed a lot
more tuning problems with my equipment (I do not have a diseqc switch), if I did
only send a message when needed. After going back to 'always diseqc', all went
fine for me, the tuning works better than ever before at the moment !!!


Best regards,

Rolf

> bye, reiner
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am proud to announce the third public release of DTV. This (minor) release is
> > primarly intended to improve the configuration capabilities of DTV. A new method
> > for key-definitions, user-definable menus and Dcl-style options should enable
> > anyone, who is able to understand and write some Tcl stuff, to configure dtv
> > to exactly his own needs. Of course some bugs have been removed also. Finally
> > I dropped support for DVB driver versions prior to CVS (24/09/01). The code does
> > only works with the new tuning API. At last I included the newest Astra channel
> > settings of 1st, October.
> >
> > The main additonal features of the third publically released version 1.2 are:
> >
> >    - Fully-configurable user-interface. Each input event can trigger arbitrary
> >      actions on the output devices in any state of them. These actions can as
> >      well be Dcl commands or functions.
> >    - User definable menus (dynamically, can be used to modify the menus of a
> >      running dtv via TCP link. Targeted applications are E-Mail notification
> >      and reading, answering machine control (together with vbox or mgetty))
> >    - Completely revised option handling (look into variables.dcl). Event
> >      tracing capability (perform some action if something like channel
> >      switching happens to the output device).
> >    - State and EPG save/restore on program exit/entry.
> >    - Extended EPG facilities. Ability to scroll around in EPG data.
> >    - LastVisitedChannel support (by using the '0' channel number)
> >    - Volume control.
> >    - Preliminary Record/Playback capability. If you would like to use this, you
> >      would have to get the stream from /dev/ost/dvrx and feed it back via
> >      'ntuxplayer'. Better support will follow in the next (major) release.
> >    - Preliminary AC3 capability. If you would like to use this, you would have
> >      to get the stream from /dev/ost/dvrx and feed it into your processor.
> >    - Bug fixes: * fixed bug, that causes dtv to crash on missing remote control
> >                   name for LIRCD translation-tables.
> >                 * fixed: Diseqc bug (Satellite object has not been copied)
> >                 * fixed: Vtx-Bug (wrong PIDs selected, if AC3 available)
> >
> > The release is under Gnu GPL, the project is hosted by SourceForge.Net with
> > the Name hesdvb. The tarball of DTV can be downloaded from:
> >
> >     http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.2.0.tar.gz
> >
> > Email comments and improvements to this list or directly to
> >
> > hakenes@hippomi.de
> >
> > Have fun,
> >
> > rh
> >
> >
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