On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:13:41PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: Hello Andreas ;-) > 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. ;) That's a good begining!!! > 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 There is an (outdated) 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 Thank you very much for this really complete answer: that way I won't loose too much time still trying to compil everything ;-) Grégoire ________________________________________________________________________ http://magma.epfl.ch/greg ICQ:16624071 mailto:Gregoire.Favre@freesurf.ch
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