[mpeg2] Re: Porting to v4l 2

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

> > * Support on-the-fly configuration in v4l 2 (possibly v4l 1 if I have
> > the time)
> > 
> > Reason: I need to have the driver running in the same machines as the
> > dvb-kernel DVB driver which is v4l2...
> 
> I don't know if this is a related problem, but maybe, while you're at it,
> you could fix this: every time I record a Transport Stream from my Kfir card
> I have to reload the driver, otherwise the next recording will have severe
> artefacts at the bottom quarter of the picture. When recording PS/PES it works
> fine without driver reloads - but I do need TS.
> 
> I hav ereported this to the list several months ago (when I first started
> using the Kfir card), but nobody knew a solution for this :-(

Hmm, I won't have access to the kfir docs as I'm not under their NDA,
and that does sounds awfully like a problem with the encoder itself..
I'll try my best though.


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Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>