[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] access: dvb: scan: add basic support for DVB-T dvbv5 lists

Francois Cartegnie fcvlcdev at free.fr
Mon Apr 11 17:24:59 CEST 2016


Le 11/04/2016 17:20, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> Le 2016-04-11 16:55, Francois Cartegnie a écrit :
>> Le 11/04/2016 16:34, Devin Heitmueller a écrit :
>>> On a related note, doesn't it make more sense to add support for
>>> libdvbv5 rather than introducing your own parser and scanning
>>> framework?  While the library is currently GPL rather than LGPL, Mauro
>>> has suggested a willingness to relicense it to LGPL if needed by some
>>> open source application.
>>
>> Two reasons:
>> * Not available for Windows.
> 
> Nor is the old DVB plugin and scanning code.
> 

So fixing the scanning code (even if it's only bound to linux dvbv3
module right now) to be able to handle both linux/windows frontends (and
read tuning files on windows platforms) is useless ?

The other way is to fork libdvbv5 and port it to windows systems.

Francois


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