Re: Problems with multifrontend



Am 25.10.2012 09:34, schrieb Stefan Ringel:
> Am 25.10.2012 09:22, schrieb Sebastian Pölsterl:
>> Am 25.10.2012 01:32, schrieb Tony Houghton:
>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:15:19 +0200
>>> Sebastian Pölsterl <sebp k-d-w org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 24.10.2012 13:32, schrieb Stefan Ringel:
>>>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>>> Which Linux-DVB-API use you, version 3 or version 5? Use you 
>>>>> FE_SET-PROPERTY/FE-GET_PROPERTY IOCTL's?
>>>> gstreamer's dvbsrc takes care of tuning. Currently it does not use
>>>> FE_SET_PROPERTY and FE_GET_PROPERTY. See
>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/sys/dvb/gstdvbsrc.c
>>>>
>>>> If you think that this might the cause of your problem, please file a
>>>> bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GStreamer
>>> There is a report/request about using the newer API at
>>> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654479>. But I don't think
>>> that's the main problem here. I think Stefan's complaint is that
>>> gnome-dvb will only let him use this card for cable, when it should be
>>> usable for terrestrial too. Multi-frontend means the card has one
>>> frontend with multiple capabilities, not separate frontends for each of
>>> C and T.
>>>
>> I see that you already started working on supporting the new API, that's
>> great.
>>
>> I don't own any multi-frontend device myself, so it's hard for me to
>> judge what the problem is. Currently, gstreamer's dvbsrc only supports
>> specifying the number of the adapter and frontend to use. You are saying
>> that additional information is required to support multi-frontend devices?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> The Linux DVB-API v5 has the FE_GET_PROPERTY/FE_SET_PROPERTY mechanism.
> With DTV_ENUM_DELSYS you can ask which frontend standards it can. With
> DTV_DELIVERY_SYSTEM you can switch between the delivery systems. The v3
> API cannot that. The support of newer delivery systems has only the
> DVB-API v5.
> 
Hi Stefan,

thanks for the information. I will push to get the DVBv5 patch proposed
by Tony accepted by gstreamer people.

Best regards,
Sebastian



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