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2022-11-14   Report of the Kernel CAM topic

It happened during the Media Mini Summit Dublin - Sep 12 and 13, 2022

It mentioned that the report about the Kernel CAM topic that happened on would be posted later, so I'm pleased to finally post that. Thanks to all who participated in the meetings and the reviewing of this report.

hverkuil

2022-11-14   Report from the Media Mini Summit in Dublin

On September 12th, 2022 we had a day long Media Mini Summit, discussing many media topics. It was the first time after three years without meetings that we finally could get together again.

hverkuil

2021-05-29  

LinuxTV IRC channels changed

From now on, the main IRC channel will be #linux-media at irc.oftc.net

mchehab

2019-08-12   CI builder service for LinuxTV.org

We now have a new instance running Continuous Integration(CI) builds at:

Using some VMs generously provided by OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/).

mchehab

2019-05-24   Edinburgh Discussions about Stateless Codecs, Oct, 23 2018

In addition to the official Edinburgh's Media Summit, there was an extra meeting to discuss Stateless Codecs implementation. The meeting notes are enclosed here.

sailus

2019-05-24   Edinburgh Media Summit 2018 meeting report - Oct, 25

Here’s the report on the Media Summit held on 25th October in Edinburgh. The report is followed by the stateless codec discussion two days earlier.

sailus

2018-10-01   Linux Media Summit in Edinburgh - Oct, 25 2018

The next Linux Media Mini Summit will happen on Oct, 25 on Edinburgh, Scotland together with Embedded Linux Conference Europe

hverkuil

2018-07-13   Report of the Complex Camera Workshop - Tokyo - Jun, 19

We did a Complex Camera workshop in Tokyo. The main focus of the workshop is to allow supporting devices with MC-based hardware connected to a camera.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

2018-06-22   Maintenance of edid-decode

The edid-decode utility is used to decode an EDID into human-readable text. It has been maintained for a long time by Adam Jackson, but he no longer had the time for it, so Hans Verkuil has taken over maintenance and the git repo has been moved to git://linuxtv.org/edid-decode.git.

hverkuil

2018-06-04   Complex Camera Workshop - Tokyo - Jun, 19

We'll be doing a Complex Camera workshop in Tokyo. The main focus of the workshop is to allow supporting devices with MC-based hardware connected to a camera.

mchehab

2018-06-04   Report of the Linux Media Summit 2017 – Prague, October, 2017

This is the report of the Linux Media Summit 2017, with happened in Prague, October, 2017.

mchehab

2018-06-04   Media mini-summit on Friday October 27 in Prague

We are organizing a media mini-summit on Friday October 27 in Prague, co-located with the ELCE conference:

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe

mchehab

2016-05-25   Kaffeine ported to Qt5/KF5

The Digital TV GUI application Kaffeine, originally written as a KDE 4 application was ported to use Qt5 and KDE Foundations 5.

mchehab

2016-04-20   Report of the Linux Media Summit 2016 – San Diego on April, 2016

This is the first draft of the Linux Media Summit 2016 – San Diego on April, 2016

mchehab

2016-03-05   Linux Media Summit in April, 7 - San Diego - CA - USA

As discussed on our IRC #v4l channel at Freenode, we'll be running a 1-day Linux Media Summit in San Diego on April, 7, just after the Embedded Linux Conference.

Feel free to submit relevant topics related to the Linux Kernel support for media, in order to help us to build the workshop's agenda and take other needs into account when working on it.

As usual, we'll be using the media-workshop@linuxtv.org ML for the specific discussions about that, so the ones interested on participate on such discussions and/or be present there are requested to subscribe it, and to submit themes of interest via the mailing lists.

Please also send an e-mail if you're intending to join us there, to allow us to be sure that we'll have enough seats for the participants.

Hope to see you there!

Regards,
Mauro

mchehab

2015-11-12   Report of the Linux Kernel Summit Media Workshop in Seoul, South Corea, Oct, 26 2015

This is the report for the Linux Kernel Summit Media Workshop in Seoul, South Corea, Oct, 26 2015.

mchehab

2015-08-17   Report of the Media Controller Workshop in Espoo on July 2015

This is the first workshop dedicated to the Linux Media Controller.

We had a v4l summit back in 2010 in Finland that established the current foundation for the media controller, and to properly satisfy the needs of reporting the pipelines on the smartphone System on a Chip (SoC).

The focus of this year’s workshop was to clarify the kernel➞userspace interfaces and extend the Media Controller to be used on other subsystems that need to represent graphs like Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), and Industrial I/O (IIO).

mchehab

2015-07-08   Media Controller workshop in Helsinki on July, 2015

As discussed on our IRC #v4l channel at Freenode, we'll be running a 3-day Media Controller workshop in Helsinki between July 29-31.

The main goal of this workshop is to fixup the problems with the Media Controller API to properly represent device nodes and the control tree, as this is a requirement for the Media Controller to be used by DVB, ALSA and radio devices.

This is an invitation-only event, as we want to be sure that we'll have there people that are actively working with the Media Controller, DVB and/or ALSA. So, if you think this is for you, please send us an e-mail.

Also, even if you're not able to participate, feel free to submit relevant topics related to the Media Controller, in order to help us to build the workshop's agenda and take other needs into account when working on the needed API changes.

As usual, we'll be using the media-workshop@linuxtv.org ML for the specific discussions about that, so the ones interested on participate on such discussions and/or be present there are requested to subscribe it, and to submit themes of interest via the mailing lists.

For those interested on this theme, I'll add a list of the most relevant past discussions about this theme on this news.

Hope to see you there!
Mauro.

mchehab

2015-05-05   Report of the V4L/DVB mini-summit in San Jose, March, 26 2015

The first 2015 Linux Media mini-summit happened in San Jose, CA, USA, on March, 26 2015. The notes taken during the meeting is available here.

mchehab

2014-10-21   Report of the Media Summit in Düsseldorf, Oct, 17-18 2014

We had our second 2014's Media Summit on Oct, 17-18 in Düsseldorf.

In the name of the organizing committee, I'd like to thank you all for being there with us during those two days.

There were several good discussions that happened during the meeting, aimed to improve even more the Linux media subsystem.

Also, it was agreed during the meeting that we'll try to reach an even broader audience on the next events. So we're counting with all you on our next year's event(s).

Thanks,
Mauro

The notes taken during the meeting is available here.

mchehab

2014-05-17   Report of the V4L/DVB mini-summit in San Jose, May 3rd 2014

The first 2014 Linux Media mini-summit happened in San Jose, CA, USA, on May 3rd 2014. The notes taken during the meeting is available here.

mchehab

2014-03-24   Media mini-summit on May, 2 in San Jose

The next Linux Media Mini Summit will happen on May, 2 in San Jose, CA, USA, just after the Embedded Linux Conference

mchehab

2013-11-30   Edinburgh's KS2013 Media Workshop Notes

During KS/2013, there was the Linux Kernel Media Workshop in 2013. The final notes of the summit is available.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

2012-12-29   Barcelona's Media Summit 2012 Report Notes

During LinuxCon Europe/2012, there was the second Media Workshop in 2012. The discusion notes are now available.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

2012-12-28   San Diego's KS2012 Media Workshop Notes

During KS/2012, there was the first Media Workshop in 2012. The discusion notes are now available.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

2011-10-26   Report for the Media subsystem workshop 2011 - Prague - Oct 23-25

Report for the Workshop 2011 is already available here.

mchehab

2011-06-24   Media subsystem workshop 2011 - Prague - Oct 23-25

This year, the Media subsystem workshop will happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011

More details are available at the 2011 meeting page.

Since 2007, we're doing annual mini-summits for the media subsystem, in order to plan the new features that will be introduced there.

Last year, during the Kernel Summit 2010, it was decided that the Kernel Summit 2011 format will be modified, in order to strength the interaction between the several sub-system mini-summits and the main Kernel Summit. If this idea works well, the next Kernel Summits will also follow the same format.

So, some mini-summits were proposed to happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011. Among a few others, the Media subsystem was accepted to be held with this year's Kernel Summit.

So, we'd like to announce that the Media subsystem workshop 2011 will happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011.

Enjoy!
Mauro Carvalho Chehab

mchehab

2011-03-02   Xawtv updated to version 3.100.

Xawtv3 remained without updates for a long time. So, distros were adding bug fix patches on their packages. Also, some tools used to support just V4L1 API.

A series of patches were added, incorporating the bugfixes found on the distros and converting it to use V4L2 API.

mchehab

2010-06-22   V4L mini-summit on June, 14-16 2010

A V4L mini-summit was held in Nokia Research Center, in Helsinki, during this Summer, with more than 20 participants.

mchehab

2010-01-19   Git tree repositories

Since today, linuxtv.org starts supporting git tree repositories

mchehab

2009-01-06   V4L, DVB and Maintainers Mailing Lists at linux-media@vger.kernel.org

V4L, DVB and V4L/DVB Maintainers Mailing Lists Were merged on Jan, 2 2009 at vger.kernel.org

mchehab

2008-09-28   Video Input Infrastructure Miniconf presentations at LPC/2008 is available for download

Several of the most active developers of V4L/DVB, together responsible for about 60% of the committed patches over the last year, made their presence at Linux Plumbers Conference 2008. Some of they presented their views about the evolution of kernel and userspace API evolutions. The slides are now available for download at LinuxTV website.

mchehab

2008-09-23   DVB API improvements

After years of discussions, several patch series and two different proposed approaches, LinuxTV developers finally decided that S2API is the better technical proposal and should be accepted as the way to allow supporting newer DTV standards, starting with DVB-S2.

mchehab

2008-09-19   V4L/DVB Miniconf at Linux Plumbers/2008

V4L/DVB Miniconf at Linux Plumbers/2008 was handled between Sept, 17 and Sept, 19 2008

mchehab

2007-06-28   v4l2-library initiated

A new v4l2 library is initiated to implement userspace decompression algorithms that cannot fit in kernelspace.

tmerle

2006-11-24   Kernel bugzilla is ready for use by the v4l-dvb community

A new category has been added to Kernel Bugzilla, in an effort to expedite the handling of v4l-dvb problem tickets.

mchehab

2006-04-08   Big changes at v4l-dvb make internal working

Big changes at v4l-dvb make internal working

mchehab

2006-01-30   Mercurial (aka hg) V4L/DVB tree

New v4l/dvb Mercurial tree available, replacing CVS.

mchehab

2005-12-26   V4L-DVB Git Tree

New v4l-dvb.git tree at kernel.org

mchehab

2005-11-26   V4L and DVB trees merged.

We are proud to announce that both project trees will be joined.

mchehab

2005-11-11   Deadline for V4L1 API

Video4Linux API version 1 is declared as obsolete, with a deadline marked as July/2006.

mchehab

2005-05-03   video4linux Wiki and CVS

As a result of the connection between the video4linux and the DVB projects, we now host a V4LWiki and the video4linux CVS on linuxtv.org.

js

2005-02-14   Linux DVB API v4 project page

There is now a wiki page dedicated to the Linux DVB API v4.

hunold

2005-02-13   LinuxTV.org site relaunch

We finally managed to complete the new linuxtv.org server installation and changed DNS entries to activate the new server.

js

2005-01-28   Linux DVB API v4 presentation at CE Linux Forum Technical Conference

Michael Hunold gave a presentation about the Linux DVB API v4 at the annual CE Linux Forum Technical Conference in San Jose, California, USA on January, 26th.

hunold

2004-07-28   DVB major device number has changed

DVB major device number has changed from 250 to 212

js

2004-04-19   dvb-kernel CVS branched for Linux 2.4

Main DVB driver development focus moves to Linux 2.6.

js

2004-03-05   Linux DVB driver release 1.1.1

Bugfix release with some frontend improvements.

js

2004-02-04   Linux DVB driver release 1.1.0

New Drivers, new Cards. Get in sync with the kernel driver.

holger

2003-08-04   Linux DVB driver + API doc release 1.0.0

Added Technisat Skystar2 driver + various fixes and improvements.

js

2003-04-23   New MPEG2-Encoder board available

BMK has released a MPEG2-Encoder based on the Philips SAA68xx (EMPRESS) chip.

ml

2003-03-05   Linux DVB driver release 1.0.0-pre2

Improved AV7110 OSD handling for VDR

js

2003-02-13   Linux DVB driver release 1.0.0-pre1

A new release tarball from the LinuxTV DVB CVS!

js

2003-02-10   Updated Linux DVB API documentation

The DVB API documentation was updated for DVB_API_VERSION 3.

js

2002-10-28   Linux DVB API is going to be part of the official Linux Kernel

Linux DVB API has been added to the Linux 2.5.44-ac1 Kernel.

szymon

2002-04-21   New version 1.0.1 of Video Disc Recorder available

Update release for the 1.0.1 release.

szymon

2002-04-07   New version 1.00 of Video Disc Recorder available

"Well, after more than two years of development, the big moment has finally come: VDR has now officially made it to version 1.0.0!"

szymon

2002-02-04   Margi_cs 0.6 is out

New version of the Margi/Billionton DVD-to-Go PC-Card driver

marcus

2002-01-21   Announce: rtptsaudio

A DVBstream client

martin

2001-11-08   LinuxTV goes DVB-T

Digital terrestrial TV on your Linux Box

martin

2001-10-16   Announce: dvbstream 0.3

Updated to the latest tuning API, added command-line switches

martin

2001-10-02   DTV - New (minor) Release 1.2

DTV - New (minor) Release 1.2

martin

2001-09-24   DivX on DVB card with MPlayer

DivX on your television set

martin

2001-09-23   New version 0.96 of Video Disc Recorder available

you can always get what you really want

martin

2001-09-16   New version 0.95 of Video Disc Recorder available

Switched to the driver's new tuning API

martin

2001-09-04   Announce: dvbstream 0.1

RTP multicast DVB transport streams

martin

2001-09-03   New version 0.94 of Video Disc Recorder available

Automatic shutdown and other improvements

martin

2001-08-26   New version 0.93 of Video Disc Recorder available

Date/Time display, new Setup parameter MaxVideoFileSize, "Timers" menu

martin

2001-08-08   dvbd3 is out

new software for internet by satellite

martin

2001-08-07   New version 0.90 of Video Disc Recorder available

The ultimate home entertainment center - now with DVD player

martin

2001-06-28   whitedot.org

digital television conspiracy

martin

2001-04-10   Announcement: DVBCC Module, second public release

DVB Caroussel generation software for LinuxTV

martin

2001-03-16   Videotex viewer for dvbtext-0.1 released

Teletext or videotext via DVB - full graphics and color

martin

2001-02-26   New version 0.71 of Video Disc Recorder available

The most personal video recorder on the planet. Now with Cable TV support.

martin

2001-02-20   Announcing: DVBaudio v0.1 (a hacked mpegtools)

a utility which can be used to record a radio station

martin

2001-02-07   dvbtext0.1 released

teletext decoder for the the Siemens/Hauppauge DVB-S cards.

martin

2001-01-26   Dietlibc screenshot

See our dietlibc in action

martin

2001-01-25   new mailinglist for kfir encoder

We changed the contact address mpeg2@linuxtv.org to be a mailinglist.

frankro

2001-01-22   TV is dead - this is LinuxTV

What's wrong with content protection?

martin

2001-01-18   New version 0.70 of Video Disc Recorder available

Save PES streams. Dump EPG data. On Disk Editing. Italia. Have Fun!

martin

2001-01-16   DVB 0.8.1 released

New version of the Siemens DVB card driver

ralph

2001-01-10   new project: diet libc, with public CVS

The project "diet libc" was launched to empower embedded application programmers on the Linux platform.

felix

2001-01-04   Kfir update

announce for updated Kfir-driver

frankro

2000-12-14   Margi_cs 0.5 is out

New version of the Margi/Billionton DVD-to-Go PC-Card driver

marcus

2000-12-04   DVB 0.8 is out

New version of the Siemens DVB card driver

ralph

2000-11-20   Kfir driver released

announce: linux driver for Kfir-based MPEG-2 encoder

frankro

2000-11-02   New version 0.67 of Video Disc Recorder available

Why buy a Tivo when you can download VDR for free

martin

2000-10-06   New DVD mailinglist

Linux DVD API, DVD Navigator, Margi, ...

martin

2000-10-04   Video Disc Recorder version 0.65

Never again watching boring TV channels

martin

2000-09-29   LinuxTV Public CVS

The revolution will be televised

martin

2000-09-25   Kvdr 0.1 is out

Kvdr - the GUI for the digital video recorder

martin

2000-09-20   MPEG2 TS over RTP

Multicasting MPEG2 Transport streams

martin

2000-09-16   DVB 0.7 is out

New version of the Siemens DVB card driver

ralph

2000-09-10   VDR 0.63 is there

New version of the digital video recorder

martin

2000-09-08   DVB API by Nokia and LinuxTV

Nokia cooperates with us for the development of Open Source software

martin

2000-09-04   Linux DVD on notebooks

PCMCIA DVD decoder card

martin

2000-08-28   Visit Us!

LinuxTV at IBC

martin

2000-08-27   relaunch

welcome on board of xml

frankro

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