On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:19:53PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Concerning the wiki: I would prefer a neutral domain
Sure. I had no other domain handy. Your domain name could also be used, if you set up DNS this way (vga2scart.lowbyte.de) or we register some free domain name vga2scart.de.vu or vga2scart.eu.org?
something like vga2scart.eu.org sounds good. Though our project is not limited to vga2scart. In the meantime I successfully use a modified version of the vga-sync-fields patch on DVI/HDMI interface also. Providing me high quality 576i over DVI/HDMI on intel i9xx machines with SDVO ports. Originating from SDTV our project could be important for HDTV also.
or even better
for this.
If you are fine with that, great. My reasoning choosing ikiwiki is, that I would expect it to save you (and others) time.
I wonder why nobody else joins our discussion.
Just to clarify: My major goal was to prove that graphics cards can provide the same picture quality as FF-cards do. But with wider flexibility at fractional cost of a FF-card among many other advantages. And without the need of expensive and time consuming hardware mods like full-TS mod, AV-board, J2 mod etc.
We now have a working sample installation for a budget system with FRC based on easy-vdr [4] which has been successfully setup by various people. Reaching this stage I consider my 'mission' completed.
You can setup a repos with current source found in vga-sync-fields package at anytime. Everybody is invited to test and contribute. I don't consider it as 'my' project. I just will contribute the initial idea behind frame rate control and a sample implementation for it.
And of course I will continue to develop as time permits.
- Everyone can use his favorite text editor and saves time not having
to open a browser and use web forms.
- Let us say, you implement support for another card(?), than you would
update the README right away using the console and your editor of choice and the Wiki is updated, too. Otherwise you would have to log into http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/ find the page, hit edit, (wait for it to load,), ???
ok, I wouldn't bother much to log in. It depends on what the majority of possible contributers would prefer.
Do you care about this? It all depends on your needs and habits.
no.
On a side note. Do you know if linuxtv.org is also for non-English languages. In my opinion, it would not be so beneficial to have the documentation for one language on one site and for another language on another.
I don't know. But I think an english doc should be enough.
IMHO all VDR related documentation and discussion should be collected at one place.
Is linuxtv.org the place for VDR related documentation?
At least they have a wiki. The German VDR wiki [1] refers to [2] when you select the english language button.
Do you mean by discussion mailing lists?
right.
I never used sourceforge.net. So I can not say anything about this. They offer SVN and CVS, do not they?
sorry, I can't tell
My conclusion from your reply is, that publishing your repository on your server is not an option.
unfortunately it's not an option ATM
Could you please tell me, how you are managing the VGA2SCART patches right now and if publishing your tree on a server or for example [1] would be an option.
'gitorious.org' appears ok for me. As I worked alone yet on this project I did not use any source code control system until now.
As said, I don't consider it as my project. Everybody is invited to improve the project status. There are left many ideas and features still not implemented. I already wrote a to-do list with issues of lesser priority. But features that would improve things a lot.
- like writing a tool similar to powerstrip. Which lets you adjust overscan and other parameters in real time by pressing cursor keys. or
- derive xine's masterclock from graphics card frame rate. This would provide almost instant sync after a channel switch. The idea for this was published by 'durchflieger' [3]
There are still left many things to do. As often in life it's not a matter of ideas but a matter of time:)
Cheers Thomas
[1] http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite [2] http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki [3] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=796538#post796538 [4] http://www.easy-vdr.de/forum/index.php?topic=6072.msg51320#msg51320