[vdr] Re: Allwell Set-Top-Box ordering

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

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From: "Micha" <mt@thalmann.de>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Allwell Set-Top-Box ordering


> am 18.09.2002 17:27 Uhr schrieb Rene Bartsch unter vdr@bartschnet.de:
>
>
> > Neutrino is - if I did understand well - nothing other
> > than a linux-distro desinged for the D-box2.
>
> right.
>
> > So we only need support for the D-box2-tuner in the Convergence-driver
> > and a output-plugin for the D-box2 (?? Framebuffer ??)
>
> That seems to be much! work.

You could start with a output-plugin for framebuffer/OSS using libavcodec to
decode the MPEG. The worst problem will be the rendering of the OSD.
I can't do that myself as I'm no C-programmer.
When I've get rid of doctors having a lot of diagnosis but no clue, I'll dig
into C/C++.

Next step would be to integrate the Neutrino-tuner-drivers into the
Convergence-driver (with some kind of wrapper).

>
> > It's no job for the Neutrino but for the VDR-developers.
>
> right.
>
> > We also need software-decoding for the people having low-budgets.
>
> right, but waiting for someone else porting something is not the right
> solution. If they will do it, ok, but don't hold your breath for
'ungelegte
> Eier' ;-). Then you could also wait for the long announced and never
> delivered dream-box on http://dream-multimedia.tv .
>
> Sorry for my hard words, but being on the neutrino website
> http://dbox2.elxsi.de and reading the intro page must have had a bad
> influence on me today. I would rather stay away from these 'developers' as
> far as I could.
>

I think that harsh words on their site are only about the black sheeps
bothering the developers.
We could also use every Linux-PPC-distro (only the HW-drivers are needed).