[kde-freebsd] kaffeine-1.0 and webcamd based DVB-T?

[Juergen Lock]

In article <4C6704A6.3050407 at FreeBSD.org> you write:
>On 08/14/2010 18:30, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>> KDE3-Kaffeine was working with my webcamd based DVB-T stick,
>> KDE4-Kaffeine does not.
>>
>> Now that multimedia/kaffeine is the KDE4 version and the KDE3 version
>> gone, is there a way to teach Kaffeine about the DVB-T stick? ("Channel
>> Scan" does not show any "Source".)
>>
>> I remember there was a thread about this, but I currently cannot find it.
>
>Unfortunately i don't have a supported DVB stick, so i can't test anything.
>
>kaffeine uses the v4l-compat headers so in theory it should work like in 
>Linux...
>
>Does your stick work with other applications like mplayer or vlc?

I now know what's wrong:  Unlike the old kaffeine which looked for
dvb devices itself, the KDE4 version relies on x11/kdelibs4 to
find them (<Solid/DvbInterface>, src/dvb/dvbdevice_linux.cpp
in kaffeine sources), which in turn relies on sysutils/hal
(solid/solid/backends/hal/haldvbinterface.cpp in kdelibs), and
at least hal doesn't know about dvb devices on FreeBSD yet, they
are only handled in hald/linux/device.c in hal sources.  I've
Cc'd the hal and kdelibs port maintainers in case they want to
look at this...

 HTH,
	Juergen