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[linux-dvb] Re: Enigma/Neutrino/Tuxbox ?



Hi Gregoire,

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 19:15, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> I would like to try one of those tremendous applications that are
> Enigma, Neutrino or lcars ;-)
> 
> I don't know exactly if that's supposed to work under a linux ix86 or
> not...

I guess only few people have tried that. They run on ppc, but at least
Enigma and (most parts of) Neutrino are known to have no endian
problems. ;)

> I also found http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxbox/ which is really old
> and I cannot decompact the archive...

This project is - besides of is name - not related in any way.

> Is someone able to compil and use the apps from the CVS under his PC?

There was some effort to port Enigma to directfb. There is an (outdated)
branch in cvs [1]. I made a little patch to make it theoretically work
with the so called premium cards and matrox back end scalers, but I
don't know exactly how far Felix [2] proceeded. AFAIK he doesn't own a
premium card. Please contact him for details.

Neutrino does not work standalone but is surrounded by some daemon
processes which do several jobs:
controld - adjusts volume, scart, aspect ratio etc.
nhttpd - a web frontend (zapping, recording timers etc.)
sectionsd - gathers event information for Neutrino's EPG
zapit - manages channel lists, channel changes, scans, all demux stuff
except EIT.

I used nhttpd + sectionsd + zapit for some time to watch tv with my
hauppauge card on x86, but I prefer real set top boxes for daily use. ;)

I don't know anyone who tried lcars on other hardware than dbox2 or
dreambox.

All three apps use DVB V3 drivers, but some features depend on
dbox2-specific devices (look for /dev/dbox/* in the source code) due to
lack of useable Linux APIs (pal encoder, vcr events, scart switches,
...). The user interface is drawed using a framebuffer device. Video
underlay is required. User input is done using /dev/input/event. The mp3
players of Enigma and Neutrino depend on OSS compatible drivers.

Regards,
Andreas

[1]
http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/apps/tuxbox/enigma/?only_with_tag=directfb
[2] tmbinc at elitedvb.net

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