Georg Acher wrote:
For the client side, the sources will be published as GPL. Currently we use a closed source daemon with a dvb loopback driver in the kernel, but that makes it hard to fully use the tuner virtualization and costs some overhead for small CPUs. Since we already have a native vdr plugin for that, the network code will be then forced to be GPL anyway ;-)
Hi Georg.
Since there currently isn't v4l looback driver in mainline kernel, I suggest you take part on this ongoing discussion at linux-media mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg04362.html
As you can see, Mauro was going to add that loopback driver on v4l as out-of-tree driver. For end-user it would be a lot easier if your loopback implementation would be integrated on that driver and added to upstream kernel tree :)
Regards, Matti