On Monday 25 September 2006 18:58, Steve Dibb wrote:
> On Monday 25 September 2006 12:21, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >> As you know I'm still working towards kernel inclusion of the
> >> driver. The 2.6.18 kernel now contains a major building block: it
> >> adds a new official MPEG encoding API. This is to be used by all
> >> future MPEG-1/2/4 encoders. And it also adds a cx2341x module that
> >> implements the handling of that new API and is shared by ivtv,
> >> pvrusb2 and cx88 (blackbird) drivers.
> >>
> >> The old ivtv-proprietry API has been removed completely. This
> >> means that any applications that depend on it have to be converted
> >> to the new API. MythTV 0.20 has the required changes already. But
> >> read the note in the ivtv-0.8.0 README when you are building
> >> MythTV on a 64-bit system as you need to apply a patch over MythTV
> >> first.
>
> I just wanted to get some clarification on something that I've been
> wondering about for a while. And this has probably been covered
> before, so I apologize.
>
> I was just curious if this means that you are moving away from using
> the Hauppauge external firmware at all and moving towards using your
> own drivers completely instead. That's what it kind of sounded like
> from reading the announcement, at least.
With 'API' I mean the interface between a linux application and the
driver, not the interface between the ivtv driver and the firmware on
the card. That will always stay the same. So the firmware won't go
away.
Hans
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