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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 8/19/10 12:17 PM, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 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...

Hal does support v4l (and thus webcamd) right now.  I added that for
GNOME 2.30.  I didn't do any dvb support.  I may need some examples of
dmesg and sysctl to make this happen.

Joe

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