[vlc] Re: DVB?

[Jan Ekholm]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

>
>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>>
>> Running with horizontal polarization gave no different results, the output
>> looks the same to me. The log is at the usual place:
>>
>> 	http://www.infa.abo.fi/~chakie/media/vlc.log
>>
>> I'm very sorry to be this annoying with this problem.
>>
>Don't worry if there is a problem it needs to be fixed. Tuing with DVB-S
>used to work and I think also with the VIVA channels (It is one of the
>channels I normally use with testing). However since it is about half a
>year ago that I wrote this plugin I am not sure anymore which channels
>were used in testing.

Ok, I have access to a few satellites at work, at least Astra, Thor and
Hotbird as well as cable and terrestrial stuff. The latter two aren't
really useful as we don't share any common channels.

>At the moment I don't have access to a DVB-S machine, but I do have
>access to a DVB-C machine with similar problems. These two problems
>might be related. Due to a lot of stress on the job right now I won't be
>able to debug this untill this weekend. I'm sorry that it is not
>possible for me to fix this very quickly.

I could meanwhile install a DVB-c card and see how that works. I anyway
need to create a few kernels for the different DVB cards.

>I hope the delay is not a big problem for you.

No, I have a lot to do, so I'll just suspend the "media engine" evaluation
for a while. Videolan still seems to be one of the strongest applications
in this field, so it's probably worth waiting a while. :)

-- 
          "Yes, bugger all that." said Nanny. "Let's curse somebody."
                                            -- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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