[linux-dvb] Re: CAMs - the never ending story...

2002-04-14 Thread Szymon Polom
iver work has to be done at new areas and working cam support for the TI AV771x has no real priority for us, because nobody is going to pay us for that work. The code is there. Take it, use it, enhance it! I hope this clears up a few things. Bye... Szymon. -- Szymon Polom, Project Manager Middleware

[linux-dvb] Re: extra decryptring layers in rendering stream of dv card

2002-02-20 Thread Szymon Polom
-t driver? While the driver is GPL, convergence is still the copyright holder. We will never ever allow to import some illegal modifications. Bye... Tetchy Szymon. -- Szymon Polom, Project Manager Middleware GPG Key-ID: E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH http://www.con

[linux-dvb] Re: some minor restructuring (before the big one :-)

2002-02-10 Thread Szymon Polom
Hi, Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Just curious ... what will be the big change be ??? I guess we're goining to modularize the drivers in a better way. > P.S: Any news about the CI-Layer No. We leave it as it is. For now. Bye... Szymon. -- Szymon Polom, Proj

[linux-dvb] Re: Software decoder

2002-02-05 Thread Szymon Polom
am pretty sure that something like that is already running under Linux. And I guess we should deliberately avoid to discuss such semi legal things on this mailing lists or some "interested parties" will shut this whole site down. Just my 2 cents... Bye... Szymon. -- Szymon

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB/VDR newsserver?

2002-02-03 Thread Szymon Polom
sgroups/part1/ > We can apparantly easily set up one or several groups withing the > normal, public newsnet-hierarchy... > Comments? Public newsnet = spam, public newsnet = posting etiquette, public newsnet = lower quality of posts. Just my 2 (euro ;-)) cents. Bye... Szymon.

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB/VDR newsserver?

2002-02-03 Thread Szymon Polom
willing to do so? I have asked our administration about the possibiliy to set up a news server at linuxtv.org. I will be back with some information as soon as I get an answer :-). Bye... Szymon. -- Szymon Polom, Project Manager Middleware GPG Key-ID: E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media Gmb

[linux-dvb] Re: [vdr] Re: Re: Bad news (summary)

2001-12-19 Thread Szymon Polom
unveil the details of our internal development, but we proccess quickly. > Can you publicly comment on Convergence's chance of survival? Wait and see or call our CEO :-). Bye... Szymon. -- Szymon Polom, Project Manager Middleware GPG Key-ID: E6EA36F2 convergence int

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for help on CI problems

2001-11-12 Thread Szymon Polom
er that has a need for a working Common Interface ;-) This is partially true. We're working on a CA/CI framework in the area of device drivers, middleware and MHP now and will implement it as soon as possible. AFAIR there were no discussions at convergence if and how to publish such a development

[linux-dvb] Re: FreeBSD

2001-09-17 Thread Szymon Polom
ll under linux - I think with BSD there > is no way to work ... Do you mind telling me what exactly the difference between compiling very well and not compiling very well is? For me, it either compiles or not :). Just wondering... Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom

[linux-dvb] Re: Sorry: Siemens Activy 300 and Linux VCR

2001-08-23 Thread Szymon Polom
card and thought about a timeshifting playback with a Siemens DVB >card. But their APIs are to different. We're currently developing a (unfortunatly closed source) driver for the EM8400, which will use the Linux DVB API. So, stay tuned :). Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR as OSD-Interface / Status-Monitor

2001-08-17 Thread Szymon Polom
play still images, so it should > be in principle doable. Hmm... Sounds like a pretty ulgy hack to me. Using DirectFB would be "*really* smart" :-). > Programs like VDR would be X11-clients. Imagine: VDR could run > full-screen or it could run in a sub-window, a second sub-window

[linux-dvb] Re: Bad news :-(

2001-08-09 Thread Szymon Polom
US, maybe somebody in Europe could continue > developement?) > At least this way some of the damage might be controlled. I don't think so. Dolby's headquaters is in the UK. Nevertheless, law of contract and licence right seems to function somehow world-wide and not

[linux-dvb] Re: Small bugs in Video Disk Recorder version 0.90

2001-08-07 Thread Szymon Polom
geben" > "DVD ausspeien" :-) > "DVD wechseln" > "DVD |->" > "DVD ausstoßen" > > Bitte nicht so ganz ernst nehmen :-) :-) Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http:

[linux-dvb] Re: Small bugs in Video Disk Recorder version 0.90

2001-08-07 Thread Szymon Polom
e is that you need at least a PII oder a AMD K6-300. > > A Pentium 200-MMX appears to be to slow for sure (at the moment) Uh. We had a Pentium _100_ MHz with software AC3 (from OMS) decoding running. No problems at all ;-). Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr-0.90 and dvdplayer problem

2001-08-07 Thread Szymon Polom
.2.18 || Linux >= 2.4.2 should work, regardless of RPC I or II and SCSI or ATAPI. RPC II drives should have the region code set. Bye... Szymon. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http://www.convergence.de Rosenthaler Str

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr-0.90 and dvdplayer problem

2001-08-06 Thread Szymon Polom
noch 60 sekunden etc) and also the new -V option. > >What Linux Kernel Version are you using? > i use kernel 2.4.7 , debian sid, dual celeron 366 Do you encounter similar problems with other Linux DVD Player software? Is there a kernel message in the log regarding the

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr-0.90 and dvdplayer problem

2001-08-06 Thread Szymon Polom
O. > can someone help me? i tried the above with several dvds(matrix, > badboys, nur noch 60 sekunden etc) and also the new -V option. What Linux Kernel Version are you using? Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | ht

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting TS again (was: VDR to MPEG)

2001-06-27 Thread Szymon Polom
Hello, Quoting Ralph Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well, how many times do we have to say it? > You cannot get the original TS packets from the AV7110. Maybe someone would be willing to write a FAQ? I assume you and me don't have the time to do it :-(. Bye... SP. -- S

[linux-dvb] Re: linux-dvb for Set Top Boxes

2001-06-26 Thread Szymon Polom
IFA 2001 (in Berlin) later this year. Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http://www.convergence.de Rosenthaler Str. 51 | fon: +49(0)30-72 62 06 68 D-10178 Berlin| fax: +49(0)30-72 62

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Antwort: AW: Re: VDR: first step towards AC3 sound

2001-06-25 Thread Szymon Polom
size told me (14 Bytes). This could be the MPEG systems pack & packet header. Do not feed a decoder with this. You have to look for the "real" AC3 data. Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http://www.conv

[linux-dvb] Re: AC3 und mehr:

2001-06-20 Thread Szymon Polom
where you almost only have AC3 audio). But you always get non AC3 audio broadcasted (AFAIK), so for watching TV this is irrelevant. The 2. possibility would need a common interface. I suggest to look what the VideoLan people have done and to look at the also project too. Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom

[linux-dvb] Re: Need help understanding OSD ioctls, mostly SetColor and SetBlock.

2001-06-18 Thread Szymon Polom
use of DirectFB (www.directfb.org) for OSD would be the right effort. We're working with this solution in our LinuxTV STB OS and it works fine. Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http://www.convergence.d

[linux-dvb] Re: Prevent recordings from deletion

2001-06-14 Thread Szymon Polom
. VDR could check the file mode. An when it is set 400, VDR could assume, then it should not be deleted. So VDR would always skip this file. The question of being available or not is irrelevant. Browsing manually in the recordings directory and trying to delete such a marked file would invok

[linux-dvb] Re: Prevent recordings from deletion

2001-06-14 Thread Szymon Polom
ged as uneraseable, when it's mode is 400. You can delete it anyway, but a dialog with the request to confirm before a delete would be nice. Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http://www.convergence.de Rosenthale

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR 0.81 patch for current CVS driver

2001-06-13 Thread Szymon Polom
e *eg* Ralph had yesterday a great idea regarding my "fix this nasty bug" request. Glad to hear that it fixed some of your problems too :). Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 convergence integrated media GmbH | http://www.convergenc

[linux-dvb] Re: Lowest possible hardware configuration for VDR?

2001-06-11 Thread Szymon Polom
in sectors < 1024 turn >off bios "big disk" support and you are fine. > > btw: to answer the original question. i can't beat your offer. the 486 has no PCI >slots ... (but VESA Localbus, does anybody rememer?) There were 486 Mainboards with PCI slots. I had one :)

[linux-dvb] Re: Lowest possible hardware configuration for VDR?

2001-06-11 Thread Szymon Polom
e had even a Pentium 100 MHz here and this system used to be DVD test hardware. Beside of the DVB MPEG2 hardware decoding, we did some AC3 and CSS decoding in software on the CPU. No problems at all :). Bye... SP. -- Szymon Polom | GPG Key-ID 1024D/E6EA36F2 con

[linux-dvb] [Fwd: [linux-dvd] video scrambling]

2001-05-28 Thread Szymon Polom
This message has been forwarded to the right list :) -> Original Message Subject: [linux-dvd] video scrambling Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:11:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Michal Jeczalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello! We have a problem