[mpeg2] Re: Porting to v4l 2

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> 
> > > * 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.

The same thing under Windows (yuck) did work just fine, though, so I guess
it must be something in the Linux driver...
I also double checked with a second Kfir card, just to rule out a hardware
problem.

I'd greatly appreciate if you were able to fix this :-)

Greetings
Klaus
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