lucian orasanu wrote:

I dont understend why are you kep mantaining this patch wen vdr-1.7.0 and all plugins should be evolving on multiproto. Stop releasing this patch, keep it for you!!

I think that there's a need for it. In my opinion something like VDR should work on any stable Linux distribution without requiring special kernels and drivers to be installed. I know that the goal is to push multiproto development, but intentionally forcing incompatibility to enforce people to upgrade their systems is not really typical for open source OSes, is it?

Lets do some optimistic timeline estimations: Multiproto is currently a fork of the off-kernel DVB drivers. Lets assume another half year til this is part of the main DVB drivers. Another half year to get it into stable kernels. This will surely be too late for Debain/Lenny for example, and VDR will not run on native Debian/Stable before around 2011. This also means no more official Debian VDR packages newer than VDR 1.6.x until then.

Driver development will be pushed anyway, as DVB-S2 users need them. And there will be lots of them soon. But why force frequent kernel and driver updates to DVB-S/C/T users and even pure streaming clients, if they don't really need them?

VDR and plugins continue to evolve to multiproto anyway, the wrapper doesn't turn back time: VDR continues to internally use multiproto, the wrapper provides a 'fake' multiproto driver. And the new runtime detecting even allows transition: Just use the normal VDR binary package together with new drivers, and S2 works right out of the box! Fully support bleeding edge technology without spoiling old users! There's no way to make the switch to HD any easier than that.

Cheers,

Udo

PS: 151 downloads of API wrapper 0.3, and 19 downloads of API wrapper 0.4 in the last 15 -mostly night- hours. No need for it?