Is anyone still maintaining this code?
Or os there another IVTV supported plugin?
Is anyone still maintaining this code?
Or os there another IVTV supported plugin?
vdr-analogTV ? http://www.ko0l.de/download/vdr/analogtv/
Hi,
Is anyone still maintaining this code? Or is there another IVTV supported plugin?
vdr-analogTV ? http://www.ko0l.de/download/vdr/analogtv/
It is not clear if the maintainer has stopped working on it, but from an outside view, the plugin appears to be orphaned.
The code doesn't compile on amd64 and distributors (such as e-tobi) have collected their own set of patches to keep it alive.
Regards,
Hanno
Hi,
Simon Baxter schrieb:
Is anyone still maintaining this code?
Apparently, yes:
http://drseltsam.device.name/vdr/pvr/src/pvrinput/
Since the ivtv driver API changed in ivtv >= 0.8 a lot of API calls are no longer existent/working. Unfortunally the author does no longer maintain this plugin (see http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=48772).
This INOFFICIAL version allows to use the plugin with newer ivtv versions, but it is completely without any warranty and still very experimental:
-Adapted to ivtv driver 0.8 by "Wirbel" Winfried Koehler w_koehl@gmx.de -Further development in 2006/2007 by "Dr. Seltsam" Martin Dauskardt (martin.dauskardt@gmx.de) and Andreas Schäfers (andreas_schaefers@gmx.de).
Regards,
Hanno
Good searching!!
Thanks... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hanno Zulla" abos@hanno.de To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] pvr-input
Hi,
Simon Baxter schrieb:
Is anyone still maintaining this code?
Apparently, yes:
http://drseltsam.device.name/vdr/pvr/src/pvrinput/
Since the ivtv driver API changed in ivtv >= 0.8 a lot of API calls are no longer existent/working. Unfortunally the author does no longer maintain this plugin (see http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=48772).
This INOFFICIAL version allows to use the plugin with newer ivtv versions, but it is completely without any warranty and still very experimental:
-Adapted to ivtv driver 0.8 by "Wirbel" Winfried Koehler w_koehl@gmx.de -Further development in 2006/2007 by "Dr. Seltsam" Martin Dauskardt (martin.dauskardt@gmx.de) and Andreas Schäfers (andreas_schaefers@gmx.de).
Regards,
Hanno
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Hi everyone,
Simon Baxter schrieb:
Good searching!!
No, I just checked vdr-wiki.de, they have an extensive (but German) list of plugins plus patches and current maintainers.
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Plugins
Which leads to a related topic.
It appears that several plugins and addons are orphaned, despite having a lot of users and despite developers still releasing patches.
What to do about these packages?
There is a lot of work right now for package distributors, each of them maintaining a different set of patches for their respective distribution (analogtv is an example).
For some projects, there are patches flying around in this mailing list, on vdr-wiki.de or even in obscure discussion threads on vdr-portal.de.
Some patches are published by new developers on their homepages (the pvr-input and lcdproc plugins are examples for this), but if you ask these developers if they want to declare themselves the "new maintainer" of the plugin/addon, they thankfully decline.
So it appears that we have a problem with
1) too many vdr-related projects dying or being orphaned when the original author looses interest
2) noone daring to pickup the ball when the original author looses interest
and
3) too many different locations to find sources and patches
What can be done about this?
(If this has been discussed before, please let me know where to find it in the archive. Didn't find old discussions about this after a very brief search.)
Regards,
Hanno
Hanno Zulla wrote:
So it appears that we have a problem with
- too many vdr-related projects dying or being orphaned when the original author looses interest
In most cases, its probably not just loosing interest, but running out of time. Handling a job, a family and a time-consuming hobby all at once is nearly impossible...
- too many different locations to find sources and patches
For short term patches, if a new VDR version breaks something, forums are a good source for patches. For more long term patches, the wikis are a good place to look, and they're easy to maintain by everyone. So if you find some useful patch, don't hesitate to add a link to the wiki.
Cheers,
Udo
Hi,
- too many vdr-related projects dying or being orphaned when the original author looses interest
In most cases, its probably not just loosing interest, but running out of time. Handling a job, a family and a time-consuming hobby all at once is nearly impossible...
Yes, but what should happen to those projects?
The lcdproc plugin has been orphaned by its original author, but another author has published several patched and greatly improved versions. Yet he doesn't consider himself the new maintainer. So is it abandoned?
The analogtv plugin is abandoned, yet it's part of some vdr distributions. Their packagers keep patching it so that it works with vdr 1.6.x. Should it be dropped?
- too many different locations to find sources and patches
For short term patches, if a new VDR version breaks something, forums are a good source for patches.
Counterexample: PDAExport is a project that the developer distributes on the German vdr-portal.de forum. There is no homepage and contact address - the readme contains his forum nickname.
For more long term patches, the wikis are a good place to look, and they're easy to maintain by everyone. So if you find some useful patch, don't hesitate to add a link to the wiki.
Which Wiki? There are several, and the German vdr-wiki.de seems to be more up to date than the English linuxtv.org/vdrwiki
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Plugins http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Plugins
So far, there seem to be too many locations to send patches to.
Regards,
Hanno
can somebody to run this plugin with hvr4000 card (dvb+analog tv + FM radio) ? Or multifrontend support for this card is not implement yet ?
Good searching!!
Thanks... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hanno Zulla" abos@hanno.de To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] pvr-input
Hi,
Simon Baxter schrieb:
Is anyone still maintaining this code?
Apparently, yes:
http://drseltsam.device.name/vdr/pvr/src/pvrinput/
Since the ivtv driver API changed in ivtv >= 0.8 a lot of API calls are no longer existent/working. Unfortunally the author does no longer maintain this plugin (see http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=48772).
This INOFFICIAL version allows to use the plugin with newer ivtv versions, but it is completely without any warranty and still very experimental:
-Adapted to ivtv driver 0.8 by "Wirbel" Winfried Koehler w_koehl@gmx.de -Further development in 2006/2007 by "Dr. Seltsam" Martin Dauskardt (martin.dauskardt@gmx.de) and Andreas Schäfers (andreas_schaefers@gmx.de).
Hello.
For some days there i a new "Test Feed" channel being found automatic new channel scanner of vdr-1.6.0:
root@black:/etc/vdr# tail -1 channels.conf Test Feed;Test Feed:10920:hC56:S19.2E:22000:0:0:0:0:0:1:1063:0 root@black:/etc/vdr#
After this channel has been added to the channels.conf automatically, vdr doesn't get up any more after the next restart with the following syslog output at "-l 1":
Jun 17 19:53:27 black vdr: [9340] ERROR: channel data results in invalid ID! Jun 17 19:53:27 black vdr: [9340] ERROR: error in /etc/vdr/channels.conf, line 1343
Is there any patch to prevent vdr from adding an invalid channel?
Thank you.
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Goga777 -
Hanno Zulla -
Patrick Rother -
Simon Baxter -
Udo Richter