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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KWinTV
From:       Marko Samastur <markos () elite ! org>
Date:       2001-08-14 23:21:19
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Hi,

Thank you for taking over development of KWinTV. I was thinking about 
doing it, but I'm glad someone much more experienced step forward 
before me.

Dne torek 14. avgust 2001 20:09 je Moritz Moeller-Herrmann napisal(a):
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:14:16PM -0400, George Staikos wrote:
> >
> >   This is a note to inform you that I have received no feedback
> > from the KWinTV author and he doesn't seem to have done any work on
> > it since November, so I am starting to maintain it myself in KDE
> > CVS.  It's in rather rough shape right now, but it does work and I
> > have fixed many bugs already.  I have also applied a patch by

Well, it doesn't work for me. I use Red Hat 7.1 with stock kernel and 
Nvidia drivers for TNT and it just core dumps before it even comes up. 
The reason for it is that it tries to open device /dev/video, which is 
actualy a directory.

I can start it with option -r /dev/video0, but it doesn't behave well 
after that either. Old configuration doesn't seem to work and wizard 
doesn't find any channel. 

Mouse behaves very strangely over kwintv window. Actually, it looked 
like using a desktop in desktop.

Exiting results in core dump as well.

I'm sorry to post this here, but I have no idea where else to do it. 
Kde's bugs.kde.org don't list kde2.2 yet, I used general rpm package 
(not listed in bugs.kde.org) and if I use bug report option in the 
program, it implies that the bug report will go to the original 
maintainer, who obviously can't be reached.

> > Stefan Hellwig which makes the channel scanner work and implements
> > a brand new channel file format.

Btw, what are benefits of this new format?

> >   I would really appreciate any help that anyone could lend.  I
> > know that many of you use this application and it would be nice to
> > get it back in shape.  I'm considering dropping all KDE 1.x support
> > from it now, and I'm particularily interested in getting the build
> > ...<snip>...
> Actually xawtv does both, it switches to the bets resolution AND uses
> V4L to scale the picture.
> Great to see someone create an alternative to xawtv, which is
> technically nice, but sucks GUI-wise. Maybe you could ask the author
> of xawtv to do a port/merge to KDE ? Sounds like a better idea than
> only fixing kwintv.

As far as I know, kwintv was xawtv port to KDE1. And then it was ported 
to KDE2.  This certainly didn't result in optimised code. Also, it 
should have support for v4l and v4l2, but I'm not completely sure about 
this.

I agree it makes sense to drop KDE1 support. I wonder what would be the 
best way to continue? To port a more recent version of Xawtv (which I 
was supposed to believe is more advanced) or start a fresh. I know that 
right now I sadly lack time for either of this options. I just finished 
my civil service and there's a ton of work waiting for me.

However, I do hope to become useful in October, when I should finally 
have some spare time. I'm sorry I can't help you sooner.

Regards,

	Marko
 
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