[vdr] Re: Epia M2 + Budget-card installation

[Michael Hunold <hunold-ml@web.de>]

Hi,

On 29.09.2004 11:06, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
> * softmpeg doesn't use the hardware MPEG2 decoder of the board (cle266). 
> The author says "it works good enough" for him.
> * Colin Patton wrote a patch to softmpeg a while ago (around april/may 
> 2004) that make use of the hardware MPEG2 decoder, but I didn't manage 
> to compile it cleanly (check the softmpeg ML for info)
I didn't find the time to integrate Colin's code, yes.

> * softmpeg has stability problems (read : bad crashes), depending on the 
> channels you try to watch.
Correct. The demux uses static buffers. With bad reception, sometimes 
the buffers overflow and crash the machine. I've re-used the code in 
another project and fixed the problems, but I didn't have the time to 
put it back into libsoftmpeg.

> * I switched to softdevice because Stefan Lucke seems to be more 
> invested in his project than Michael Hunold is, and I have absolutely no 
> skill to debug the code (I tried, though).
Unfortunately, I currently don't have the time and means to work on 
libsoftmpeg anymore. I don't know if it will happen in the future again, 
because of employment and personal difficulties.

My main focus is still on the kernel integration of the Linux DVB V3 API 
and the development of the upcoming V4 API. That already sucks a big 
amount of time.

It's really sad, because there should really be a LGPL libavcodec based 
software-mpeg decoder with DirectFB out there, because it's the thing 
you want to have on an EPIA board with a budget DVB card. 8-(

I'm sorry that the project has fallen into oblivion, especially because 
the basis is already there and could be extended. But I guess this 
sometimes happens to projects.

CU
Michael.