[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] dvb_bt8xx: sub_device

["Nico Sabbi" <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Markus Germeier <mager@tzi.de>
To: Kenneth Aafløy <lists@kenneth.aafloy.net>
Cc: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>; Andreas Büsching <crunchy@tzi.de>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 10:06 PM
Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] dvb_bt8xx: sub_device


> Hi Kenneth, hi crunchy!
>
> Kenneth Aafløy <lists@kenneth.aafloy.net> writes:
>
> > I've attached a patch which converts the dvb-bt8xx driver to the bttv
> > sub_device interface, and thus makes it work with the converted frontend
> > drivers. You need to update your bttv drivers to a snapshot, which you
can
> > download from http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/ (dated after
2004-07-22
> > 15:54). I've also made it depend on the bttv.h from the kernel you are
> > compiling the dvb modules against, so if you are compiling the
video4linux
> > and dvb modules outside the kernel source tree, you will need to copy
bt848.h
> > and bttv.h (overwrite any links with the same name) from the video4linux
tree
> > to the build-2.6 directory before compiling.
>
> this looks good for me(tm)!
>
> I took a:
>   * linux-2.6.8 kernel
>   * video4linux-20040730-152601.tar.gz
>   * dvb-kernel CVS snapshot from today (20040814)
>   * and your patch.
>
> First it did not work, but I figured that I needed to update and
> recompile the dvb-apps.
>
> One problem remains: even after I compiled the current player
> (1.0pre5-3.3.3) against my new kernel "mplayer dbb://$CHANNEL" does
> not work.
>
> ->mplayer dvb://ZDF
> MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> [...]
> Playing dvb://ZDF.
> code taken from dvbstream for mplayer v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
> Released under the GPL.
> Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
> dvb_tune Freq: 562000000
>
> ... and it is stuck here.
>
> ->./tzap -r ZDF -o - | mplayer -ao alsa -
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> tuning to 562000000 Hz
> [...]
>
> This works. Probably the mplayer code needs some updates due to the
> recent changes.

no, it means that the driver is not behaving as the older one.
Anyway if you add -v and post the logs we'll se what's (not) happening

>I will try to investigate.
>
> Thanks for the work!!
>
> Regards
>         Markus
>
> --
> Markus Germeier
> mager@tzi.de
>
>