Firstly, ivtv has been working so well for me for so long now I stopped reading the list. 0.3.2q has worked flawlessly for me more or less since it came out with 2 PVR-250's on a Via(!) motherboard. So flawlessly that I forget ivtv ever gave me any problems at all. (Various previous versions had worked flawlessly as well, but changing kernel versions, changing hardware configurations, etc. forced me to try newer versions which didn't always work so flawlessly ;)). I recently went back to using the Axel (atrpms) packages and as a consequence switched to 0.3.5l. It also works flawlessly (thus far.)
I subscribed to ivtv-devel in Nov 2003, I have ~50 versions of ivtv on my system. From then to present I've totally appreciated the amount of work that went into making these cards work, so I'm here to say thanks! Particularly to Chris Kennedy, but I realize that plenty of other people have donated their time and resources to get ivtv to where it is. In that vain, I made a (small) donation to the paypal account (finally.) I know that it doesn't come anywhere close to paying for the amount of time and effort invested, but take it for what it's worth. Finally, I know that active development continues on ivtv but isn't it time someone tries to convince the kernel people to take it into the mainline kernel? As a convenience for users it would be great to see it in a mainline kernel, or even the -mm branch. Perhaps there are some technical issues (conflicts with other v4l stuff?) or political issues that I'm not aware of but basically a GPL'ed driver this useful just plain deserves to be in the kernel, IMHO. (Perhaps I missed previous discussions on this, I did try to scan the list before I posted this, didn't see anything.) Thanks again, Aran ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
