[linux-dvb] Re: V4L issues with linux dvb driver

[Michael Hunold <hunold-ml@web.de>]

Hello Billy,

> > If you encounter any more bug reports regarding the "linuxtv.org" DVB
> > driver, please encourage the users to try the "dvb-kernel" driver from
> > the project's CVS (remember: it can be compiled under 2.4.x as well)
> > and use the benefits of v4l2.
>   There is no indication of this at all on your webpage, and in fact,
> this driver (linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre1) was released quite recently.  Can
> you please indicate on this page that there will be problems with
> applications such as tvtime?
I don't have access to the webpage, so I cannot add informations there 
easily. 8-(

But I'm currently writing a howto about DVB and applications, where I'm 
trying to explain the different drivers and the use of the most common 
applications. I'll add a section about "tvtime" there for sure.

>   I'm having alot of problems with it, there are annoying bugs with it
> and the saa7134 driver for sure that made my life a total pain (and the
> saa7134 supports the old-style-mmap() interface).
CU
Michael.



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