Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-29 Thread Mike Isely
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:06:12 -0400 > Devin Heitmueller escreveu: > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jelle de > > Jong wrote: > > > Funky timing of those mails :D. > > > > > > I saw only after sending my mail that Steve was talking about an

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Castellotti
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 13:18 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > I didn't know about the 80% utilization cap for isoc, so thanks for > > providing the reference to that previous thread, which has some pretty > > interesting information. > > Anytime. Yeah have to agree, thanks so much for

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Castellotti
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 13:18 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > I didn't know about the 80% utilization cap for isoc, so thanks for > > providing the reference to that previous thread, which has some pretty > > interesting information. > > Anytime. Yeah have to agree, thanks so much for

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:06:12 -0400 Devin Heitmueller escreveu: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jelle de > Jong wrote: > > Funky timing of those mails :D. > > > > I saw only after sending my mail that Steve was talking about analog and > > that this is indeed different. Dual analog tuner suppo

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:02:48 -0400 Devin Heitmueller escreveu: > Hello Mauro, > > As far as I know, the em28xx has no capability to adjust the frame > rate. It will forward the frames at whatever rate the ITU656 stream > is delivered from the decoder. Ok. So, the fps changing will be limited t

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > I did last year some code optimizations and tests in order to support more > than one > em28xx device: > >        http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-...@vger.kernel.org/msg01634.html > > In summary, a 480 Mbps Usb 2.0 bus can be used u

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jelle de Jong wrote: > Funky timing of those mails :D. > > I saw only after sending my mail that Steve was talking about analog and > that this is indeed different. Dual analog tuner support should be > possible right? Maybe with some other analog usb chipsets? I d

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Jelle de Jong
Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Jelle de Jong > wrote: >> So I felt like doing �a field test, with my dvb-t test system. >> >> Bus 001 Device 008: ID 2040:6502 Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 >> Bus 001 Device 007: ID 2304:0226 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [hex] PCTV 330e >> Bus 001

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:10:38 +0200 > Jelle de Jong escreveu: > >> Devin Heitmueller wrote: >> >> >> >> > The issue occurs with various different drivers.  Basically the issue >> > is the device attempts to reserve a certain amount of

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Jelle de Jong wrote: > So I felt like doing  a field test, with my dvb-t test system. > > Bus 001 Device 008: ID 2040:6502 Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 > Bus 001 Device 007: ID 2304:0226 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [hex] PCTV 330e > Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0b05:173f ASUSTek Co

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:10:38 +0200 Jelle de Jong escreveu: > Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > > > > The issue occurs with various different drivers. Basically the issue > > is the device attempts to reserve a certain amount of bandwidth on the > > USB bus for the isoc stream, and in the case of a

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-22 Thread Jelle de Jong
Devin Heitmueller wrote: > The issue occurs with various different drivers. Basically the issue > is the device attempts to reserve a certain amount of bandwidth on the > USB bus for the isoc stream, and in the case of analog video at > 640x480 this adds up to about 200Mbps. As a result, conne

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:47:05 -0700 Steve Castellotti escreveu: > On 07/21/2009 07:32 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > I agree that *in theory* you should be able to do two devices. A back > > of the envelope calculation of 640x480 at 30fps in YUVY capture should > > be about 148Mbps. That said,

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Steve Castellotti wrote: > On 07/21/2009 07:32 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: >> >> I agree that *in theory* you should be able to do two devices.  A back >> of the envelope calculation of 640x480 at 30fps in YUVY capture should >> be about 148Mbps.  That said, I don

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Castellotti
On 07/21/2009 07:32 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: I agree that *in theory* you should be able to do two devices. A back of the envelope calculation of 640x480 at 30fps in YUVY capture should be about 148Mbps. That said, I don't think the scenario you are describing has really been tested/debugge

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Steve Castellotti wrote: > On 07/21/2009 06:42 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Steve Castellotti >>  wrote: >>> >>>    We can confirm that a development system running Fedora 11 with the >>> latest stable kernel (2.6.29.5-191.fc1

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Castellotti
On 07/21/2009 06:42 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Steve Castellotti wrote: We can confirm that a development system running Fedora 11 with the latest stable kernel (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i686.PAE), with identical em28xx devices connected still exhibits the error

Re: offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Steve Castellotti wrote: > Hello everyone- > >    Apologies in advance for spamming the list, but we're after adding dual > device support for the existing, GPL'd em28xx tuner driver currently in the > mainline Linux kernel. We do not have this development resource

offering bounty for GPL'd dual em28xx support

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Castellotti
Hello everyone- Apologies in advance for spamming the list, but we're after adding dual device support for the existing, GPL'd em28xx tuner driver currently in the mainline Linux kernel. We do not have this development resource in house and had hoped perhaps someone on the list might be c