Hi, Florian Schirmer writes: > >Yes, but I wanted to know how I control the special (but common to the > hardware type) > >features of these devices. > > Sorry, i misread your mail. As i don't have any clue what properties might > be out there else i cannot propose any suitable API for it. Here is what > somes to my mind without thinking longer about it: > > A) DMX_CONTROL_SOURCE > > You need another ioctl to query the source what options it has and what > vales are allowed. Easy hack but i dont like it very much.
Especially because one could then argue that we also do not need frontend devices and can do everything through the demux :-) > B) Generics input device > > Something like frontends but not bound to frontends. So you are able to > query/set it up properly. Maybe frontends can be integrated there too? Just > a quick idea. This will allow us to have all sorts of different inputs > (memory or network based, hdd, ...). Probably the way to go? Sounds good. For frontends this would also allow the addition of new hardware with new parameters/properties (e.g. ATSC) without changing any ioctls. Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
