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• kbtv-1.2.5 released

  Maintenance release with additional (and hopefully working) code for SAA with NTSC or SECAM. The FreeBSD port has more options to cover all possible broadcast standards. If upgrading from 1.2.4 use "make rmconfig".

  posted by kbtv 971 days ago

• kbtv 1.2.5 file released: kbtv-1.2.5.tbz

  This is the NEWS file for kbtv 09-05-2007: 1.2.5, point release (try making SAA NTSC and SECAM work) - saa/saa.[h][c]: reworked a bit to support NTSC and SECAM video and hopefully also tuning (I have PAL so I can't test!) - idem: external vid source numbering: numbers 0 and 3 have been interchanged - update handbook and version 09-03-2007: 1.2.4, point release (some SAA build fixes, amd64 etc) - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x.c - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x_audio.c - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x_i2c.h - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x_video.c Thanks for feedback: Boris, Filip, Greg, Yuri 06-02-2007: 1.2.3, point release (bugfixes, removed mixerchan detection) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: some bugfixes - modules/bthardware.py: remove mixerchan detection, too many problems - modules/btsetup.py: mixerchan detection never should have been here anyhow - ui/hardware_info.ui: remove mixer chan labels - now with tv mixerchan defaults to line while another (if present) can be chosen in the GUI - only basic mixer manipulations remain now, should be simple to move away from ossaudiodev to something else 01-02-2007: 1.2.2, point release (bugfixes, internal changes, mixer feature) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: disable and enable the tuneUp and tuneDown actions in their handlers so that we don't stack events that come in too fast - saa/saa.c and modules/btchannels.py: change the saa tuning code a bit, shouldn't reset before or after tuning and shouldn't re-run (if_)init, also try having muted sound with chan1 not 2 (seems some cards dont have a chan2) - keep devices open: - saa/saa.c: open iic device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit - bt848/bt848.c: open tuner device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit (and remove bktr audio hack; audio needs device opened) - it may still be possible to "loose tuning" when hitting PgUp or PgDown like a madman with saa (one has to restart kbtv then), not sure - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: add feature to choose mixer channel in the GUI, if the detected chan is the wrong one; with pwc use mic for volume control - fixed a typo bug with saa, accidentally found its output when googling! - update docs (new pics for GUI menus and rearrange/update text) 22-01-2007: 1.2.1, point release (some bugfixes) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: don't mute audio when the KbtvHardwareInfo dialog is being initialized; at least give the mixer channel detection a chance :) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: noticed that when switching drivers at fullscreen I needed to expand the video area to fullscreen again, fixed - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: pause viewer for a short while when tuning to another channel to hide static - modules/btchannels.py: sleep a bit longer after saa.tuner_frequency_set() - modules/btchannels.py: small bug with EXT0 (default channel 0): it can't be re-added (no fix, need to rewrite the whole channel code sometime) 19-01-2007: 1.2 - resurrected the kbtv project! - improved SAA tuning code, hopefully no more "dead tuning" problems - strange behaviour with QTimer (used for muting while changing channels) when using ULE, removed for now, try again later with Qt4 - smoother size and driver switching (for resize: no more restarting of capture or sleeping, this was a poor choice motivated by bktr having a nicer image when its capture size equals the display size) - reworked the viewers (in C), now part of the bt848, saa, pwc modules - work around new bktr (un)muting weirdness by keeping tuner open (FreeBSD-6.2, noticed when testing with my old Miro and WinTV cards) - start thinking about reworking bthardware/btsetup, for example use HAL, perhaps make a setup wizard (not sure if worth it) 30-07-2006: 1.1.3, point release (bugfixes) - when changing size (restarting viewer) bktr would sometimes freeze, increase sleep time to 1 sec, don't sleep if using saa (Kbtv/kbtv_part.py) 24-07-2006: 1.1.2, point release (saa/MK3 fixes) NOTE! IF YOU USE THE KBTV PORT YOU SHOULD "make rmconfig" BEFORE "make" - fixes for saa with MK3 tuners, including IF section programming -- may benefit other tuner types as well - it should now be possible to select PAL B/G, I, D/K, L, L', NTSC M/N, NTSC Japan broadcast standard (obviously I can only test my own, PAL B/G) - problems where tuning won't work (unless card already used in another OS) should be gone now -- my Avermedia card works now after power off/on - in buildprefs.py (or port options) one should set tuner API type and broadcast standard, iic address is now detected at runtime - this stuff is reflected in the saa module by the new functions tuner_if_init and tuner_init, as well as the revised tuner_frequency_set function -- the original saa support code for tuner programming is not used/compiled anymore - adapt hardware and GUI code where needed - misc bugfixes, probably also introduced a few new ones :) - update this file, README and KDE docs 25-06-2006: 1.1.1, point release (bugfixes) - fix runtime problem (implicit cast was asssumed) in bt848.c on AMD64 - a few btsetup bugfixes - swig version must be taken into account, we need swig13 (+), not swig11 - update imported pwcbsd codebase to latest version (1.3) 04-06-2006: 1.1 - new SDL viewers for bt848 and saa, currently they are rather minimal stand-alone apps and wrapped as BTBackEnd objects in python as were formerly mplayer and tvv - required to build/install/run now: SDL, SWIG, and PyKDE, plus pygame for pwc - add menu entry for size, small-medium-large, saaviewer is SDL downscaled while btviewer changes the actual capture size because this produces a better image at smaller than maximum capture size - free resizing has been shelved for now, expect this to come back later though; it requires moving the viewers into a library and pushing Qt resizing events into the SDL event loop (the stand-alone btviewer and saaviewer, while having -w and -h switches to set the initial size, are freely resizable) - update this file, README, KDE docs, pydocs, upload some screenshots - make a new port that properly deals with the new pwcbsd port (the pwc python module is built from the pwcbsd included with kbtv anyway, but pwc kernel module should be/have been installed from the pwcbsd port) 23-04-2006: 1.0.1 (never released) - add support for USB webcams made by Philips, Logitech and others, that work with the pwc kernel module from raaf.atspace.org - the driver is included and built with kbtv (see buildprefs.py) - rendering is done internally, requires pygame (formerly py-sdl) - the GUI has a driver switch (pwc may be greyed out) - instead of channel-up and -down functionality as with TV cards, with pwc you get panning (left-right) and tilting (up-down) provided your camera supports it - channel editor makes no sense with a one-signal webcam, it's greyed out - expand btsetup to include pwc (where it makes sense) 10-04-2006: 1.0 - add support for Philips SAA chip based TV cards, -- AverMedia and others -- using the kernel module and TV viewer from purpe.com - tuning and input source switching functionality is in the saa module (works exactly the same as bt848 module) and viewer backend is tvv - the driver and viewer are included and built with kbtv - some differences with bktr: saa has no AFC functionality, for embedding the viewer must be launched first (contrary to mplayer) so you see it pop up and then embed, the video standard (PAL or NTSC) and tuner type (Philips, LG, Alps, Temic) are compile-time options, as well as the IIC addresses to be used; see buildprefs.py - if there is saa support (and module loaded), saa is used, if not bktr - if both are supported, the GUI has a driver switch (saa may be greyed out) - hardware info changes if another driver is selected - channel editor and behaviour remains the same, independent of the driver - both backends use XV and there's no longer a GUI switch to choose this - expand btsetup to include saa (where it makes sense, saa has no sysctls for example) 10-02-2006: RC3 - redesign and rewrite ground-up - new build/install scripts - the format how channel lists are saved has changed, sorry - add full-screen switch - now for adding to channel list it's possible to enter a list of frequencies and/or a channelset and/or a composite device. Freqs/chansets can use AFC (default) to autotune up to +/- 2 MHz. Then after its shown the user still has the chance to manually tune (same range) and accept or reject it - integrated mplayer input config file (see below rc2) into backend code - mainwindow is now a kpart, I'm not sure what for but it is :) - dcop interface renewed, has all GUI actions and most get/set things - default kbtv rendering is now xv, default size back to 400x300 - btcontrol removed (now bt848 module), btsetup utility added - new (KDE) docs written, python modules have docstrings all over 16-12-2005: rc2 - make the default size a bit smaller; 360x270 for the video now, better for lower screen resolutions - make kbtv resize back to its default size when changing rendering method (probably the best solution for now) - deal with keyboard input when focus is on the video widget, well frankly, dodge dealing with them by using the "mute" command for mplayer key bindings (mplayer has no dummy command, and kbtv's audio isn't handled through mplayer anyway so mute can be my dummy). Reason is that otherwise the user can stop mplayer by keyboard with no clear way to restart it. The user is also not expected to know all of mplayer's default key bindings. Changes been made so that no unexpected things can happen from using the keyboard when focus is on the video area. The one exception is the space bar which pauses and unpauses the video (useful and harmless) - this requires installing an mplayer input.conf file (input.kbtv) and having kbtv symlinking this to user's ~/.mplayer dir if not already - a few minor bugfixes (I hope), docs unchanged for now - become release candidate 2, PR updated port (plist, portrevision, distfile) 04-12-2005: rc1 - add DCOP interface; to try run kbtv and then `kdcop' or `dcop kbtv Kbtv' - in conjunction, add functionality to directly enter a channel number or a composite when prefixed with "E" - put this inputbox together with the volume slider as one toolbar widget - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this plus screenshot - become release candidate 1, PR the port now, I need testers 29-11-2005: beta2 - add functionality to retrieve ALL frequencies from channelsets (by norm) - also make it possible to add/substract 1 or 2 MHz for more accutare tuning - best method remains entering frequencies if user knows, both work together - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this, enhanced "Add" dialog - if no audiosource is reported by btcontrol, make it be 0 in btcontrol.py 25-11-2005: beta1 - remove the scanner, it just doesn't work reliably using status (thanks Steve) - remove the test scripts - remove signal (status) from btcontrol - add functionality to add (a list of) frequencies to channel list - reflect changes in manpage and kbtv documentation - hold funeral for scanner and go beta to forget it 23-11-2005: alpha5 - fix bug in scanner that has krept in; scan result got lost - add warnings when bktr or tuner device doesn't exist or is not user RW - remove scan console output again, keep test scripts 10-11-2005: alpha4 - added a test script that runs some progressive tests and in the end kbtv; the tests are to be expanded/changed as needed. 06-11-2005: alpha3 - handle hw.bt848 sysctls for card, tuner, format if they are set (whether they work or not) - temporarily have (rudimentary) console output for frequency scanning so you can see/report what happens - more heuristics for frequency scanning, now it runs a prescan to see if the uppermost signal value should be discarded or not (with both my cards it should be, with others apparently it should not) 03-11-2005: alpha2 - btcontrol.c should build with gcc295 and on non-i386 now - partially fixed side effects having to do with the editor being a persistant object; scanned frequencies now appear in the editor as they should, they always get appended to the list though (merge/replace broken) - a few other small things 01-11-2005: initial alpha version

  posted 971 days ago

• File released: /kbtv/1.2.5/kbtv-1.2.5.tbz

  posted 971 days ago

• kbtv 1.2.4 file released: kbtv-1.2.4.tbz

  This is the NEWS file for kbtv 09-03-2007: 1.2.4, point release (some SAA build fixes, amd64 etc) - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x.c - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x_audio.c - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x_i2c.h - saa/patches/patch-kmod::saa713x_video.c Thanks for feedback: Boris, Filip, Greg, Yuri 06-02-2007: 1.2.3, point release (bugfixes, removed mixerchan detection) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: some bugfixes - modules/bthardware.py: remove mixerchan detection, too many problems - modules/btsetup.py: mixerchan detection never should have been here anyhow - ui/hardware_info.ui: remove mixer chan labels - now with tv mixerchan defaults to line while another (if present) can be chosen in the GUI - only basic mixer manipulations remain now, should be simple to move away from ossaudiodev to something else 01-02-2007: 1.2.2, point release (bugfixes, internal changes, mixer feature) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: disable and enable the tuneUp and tuneDown actions in their handlers so that we don't stack events that come in too fast - saa/saa.c and modules/btchannels.py: change the saa tuning code a bit, shouldn't reset before or after tuning and shouldn't re-run (if_)init, also try having muted sound with chan1 not 2 (seems some cards dont have a chan2) - keep devices open: - saa/saa.c: open iic device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit - bt848/bt848.c: open tuner device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit (and remove bktr audio hack; audio needs device opened) - it may still be possible to "loose tuning" when hitting PgUp or PgDown like a madman with saa (one has to restart kbtv then), not sure - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: add feature to choose mixer channel in the GUI, if the detected chan is the wrong one; with pwc use mic for volume control - fixed a typo bug with saa, accidentally found its output when googling! - update docs (new pics for GUI menus and rearrange/update text) 22-01-2007: 1.2.1, point release (some bugfixes) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: don't mute audio when the KbtvHardwareInfo dialog is being initialized; at least give the mixer channel detection a chance :) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: noticed that when switching drivers at fullscreen I needed to expand the video area to fullscreen again, fixed - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: pause viewer for a short while when tuning to another channel to hide static - modules/btchannels.py: sleep a bit longer after saa.tuner_frequency_set() - modules/btchannels.py: small bug with EXT0 (default channel 0): it can't be re-added (no fix, need to rewrite the whole channel code sometime) 19-01-2007: 1.2 - resurrected the kbtv project! - improved SAA tuning code, hopefully no more "dead tuning" problems - strange behaviour with QTimer (used for muting while changing channels) when using ULE, removed for now, try again later with Qt4 - smoother size and driver switching (for resize: no more restarting of capture or sleeping, this was a poor choice motivated by bktr having a nicer image when its capture size equals the display size) - reworked the viewers (in C), now part of the bt848, saa, pwc modules - work around new bktr (un)muting weirdness by keeping tuner open (FreeBSD-6.2, noticed when testing with my old Miro and WinTV cards) - start thinking about reworking bthardware/btsetup, for example use HAL, perhaps make a setup wizard (not sure if worth it) 30-07-2006: 1.1.3, point release (bugfixes) - when changing size (restarting viewer) bktr would sometimes freeze, increase sleep time to 1 sec, don't sleep if using saa (Kbtv/kbtv_part.py) 24-07-2006: 1.1.2, point release (saa/MK3 fixes) NOTE! IF YOU USE THE KBTV PORT YOU SHOULD "make rmconfig" BEFORE "make" - fixes for saa with MK3 tuners, including IF section programming -- may benefit other tuner types as well - it should now be possible to select PAL B/G, I, D/K, L, L', NTSC M/N, NTSC Japan broadcast standard (obviously I can only test my own, PAL B/G) - problems where tuning won't work (unless card already used in another OS) should be gone now -- my Avermedia card works now after power off/on - in buildprefs.py (or port options) one should set tuner API type and broadcast standard, iic address is now detected at runtime - this stuff is reflected in the saa module by the new functions tuner_if_init and tuner_init, as well as the revised tuner_frequency_set function -- the original saa support code for tuner programming is not used/compiled anymore - adapt hardware and GUI code where needed - misc bugfixes, probably also introduced a few new ones :) - update this file, README and KDE docs 25-06-2006: 1.1.1, point release (bugfixes) - fix runtime problem (implicit cast was asssumed) in bt848.c on AMD64 - a few btsetup bugfixes - swig version must be taken into account, we need swig13 (+), not swig11 - update imported pwcbsd codebase to latest version (1.3) 04-06-2006: 1.1 - new SDL viewers for bt848 and saa, currently they are rather minimal stand-alone apps and wrapped as BTBackEnd objects in python as were formerly mplayer and tvv - required to build/install/run now: SDL, SWIG, and PyKDE, plus pygame for pwc - add menu entry for size, small-medium-large, saaviewer is SDL downscaled while btviewer changes the actual capture size because this produces a better image at smaller than maximum capture size - free resizing has been shelved for now, expect this to come back later though; it requires moving the viewers into a library and pushing Qt resizing events into the SDL event loop (the stand-alone btviewer and saaviewer, while having -w and -h switches to set the initial size, are freely resizable) - update this file, README, KDE docs, pydocs, upload some screenshots - make a new port that properly deals with the new pwcbsd port (the pwc python module is built from the pwcbsd included with kbtv anyway, but pwc kernel module should be/have been installed from the pwcbsd port) 23-04-2006: 1.0.1 (never released) - add support for USB webcams made by Philips, Logitech and others, that work with the pwc kernel module from raaf.atspace.org - the driver is included and built with kbtv (see buildprefs.py) - rendering is done internally, requires pygame (formerly py-sdl) - the GUI has a driver switch (pwc may be greyed out) - instead of channel-up and -down functionality as with TV cards, with pwc you get panning (left-right) and tilting (up-down) provided your camera supports it - channel editor makes no sense with a one-signal webcam, it's greyed out - expand btsetup to include pwc (where it makes sense) 10-04-2006: 1.0 - add support for Philips SAA chip based TV cards, -- AverMedia and others -- using the kernel module and TV viewer from purpe.com - tuning and input source switching functionality is in the saa module (works exactly the same as bt848 module) and viewer backend is tvv - the driver and viewer are included and built with kbtv - some differences with bktr: saa has no AFC functionality, for embedding the viewer must be launched first (contrary to mplayer) so you see it pop up and then embed, the video standard (PAL or NTSC) and tuner type (Philips, LG, Alps, Temic) are compile-time options, as well as the IIC addresses to be used; see buildprefs.py - if there is saa support (and module loaded), saa is used, if not bktr - if both are supported, the GUI has a driver switch (saa may be greyed out) - hardware info changes if another driver is selected - channel editor and behaviour remains the same, independent of the driver - both backends use XV and there's no longer a GUI switch to choose this - expand btsetup to include saa (where it makes sense, saa has no sysctls for example) 10-02-2006: RC3 - redesign and rewrite ground-up - new build/install scripts - the format how channel lists are saved has changed, sorry - add full-screen switch - now for adding to channel list it's possible to enter a list of frequencies and/or a channelset and/or a composite device. Freqs/chansets can use AFC (default) to autotune up to +/- 2 MHz. Then after its shown the user still has the chance to manually tune (same range) and accept or reject it - integrated mplayer input config file (see below rc2) into backend code - mainwindow is now a kpart, I'm not sure what for but it is :) - dcop interface renewed, has all GUI actions and most get/set things - default kbtv rendering is now xv, default size back to 400x300 - btcontrol removed (now bt848 module), btsetup utility added - new (KDE) docs written, python modules have docstrings all over 16-12-2005: rc2 - make the default size a bit smaller; 360x270 for the video now, better for lower screen resolutions - make kbtv resize back to its default size when changing rendering method (probably the best solution for now) - deal with keyboard input when focus is on the video widget, well frankly, dodge dealing with them by using the "mute" command for mplayer key bindings (mplayer has no dummy command, and kbtv's audio isn't handled through mplayer anyway so mute can be my dummy). Reason is that otherwise the user can stop mplayer by keyboard with no clear way to restart it. The user is also not expected to know all of mplayer's default key bindings. Changes been made so that no unexpected things can happen from using the keyboard when focus is on the video area. The one exception is the space bar which pauses and unpauses the video (useful and harmless) - this requires installing an mplayer input.conf file (input.kbtv) and having kbtv symlinking this to user's ~/.mplayer dir if not already - a few minor bugfixes (I hope), docs unchanged for now - become release candidate 2, PR updated port (plist, portrevision, distfile) 04-12-2005: rc1 - add DCOP interface; to try run kbtv and then `kdcop' or `dcop kbtv Kbtv' - in conjunction, add functionality to directly enter a channel number or a composite when prefixed with "E" - put this inputbox together with the volume slider as one toolbar widget - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this plus screenshot - become release candidate 1, PR the port now, I need testers 29-11-2005: beta2 - add functionality to retrieve ALL frequencies from channelsets (by norm) - also make it possible to add/substract 1 or 2 MHz for more accutare tuning - best method remains entering frequencies if user knows, both work together - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this, enhanced "Add" dialog - if no audiosource is reported by btcontrol, make it be 0 in btcontrol.py 25-11-2005: beta1 - remove the scanner, it just doesn't work reliably using status (thanks Steve) - remove the test scripts - remove signal (status) from btcontrol - add functionality to add (a list of) frequencies to channel list - reflect changes in manpage and kbtv documentation - hold funeral for scanner and go beta to forget it 23-11-2005: alpha5 - fix bug in scanner that has krept in; scan result got lost - add warnings when bktr or tuner device doesn't exist or is not user RW - remove scan console output again, keep test scripts 10-11-2005: alpha4 - added a test script that runs some progressive tests and in the end kbtv; the tests are to be expanded/changed as needed. 06-11-2005: alpha3 - handle hw.bt848 sysctls for card, tuner, format if they are set (whether they work or not) - temporarily have (rudimentary) console output for frequency scanning so you can see/report what happens - more heuristics for frequency scanning, now it runs a prescan to see if the uppermost signal value should be discarded or not (with both my cards it should be, with others apparently it should not) 03-11-2005: alpha2 - btcontrol.c should build with gcc295 and on non-i386 now - partially fixed side effects having to do with the editor being a persistant object; scanned frequencies now appear in the editor as they should, they always get appended to the list though (merge/replace broken) - a few other small things 01-11-2005: initial alpha version

  posted 1031 days ago

• kbtv-1.2.4 released

  Point release: Fixes some SAA build problems (amd64 etc)

  posted by kbtv 1031 days ago

• File released: /kbtv/1.2.4/kbtv-1.2.4.tbz

  posted 1031 days ago

• kbtv 1.2.3 file released: kbtv-1.2.3.tbz

  This is the NEWS file for kbtv 06-02-2007: 1.2.3, point release (bugfixes, removed mixerchan detection) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: some bugfixes - modules/bthardware.py: remove mixerchan detection, too many problems - modules/btsetup.py: mixerchan detection never should have been here anyhow - ui/hardware_info.ui: remove mixer chan labels - now with tv mixerchan defaults to line while another (if present) can be chosen in the GUI - only basic mixer manipulations remain now, should be simple to move away from ossaudiodev to something else 01-02-2007: 1.2.2, point release (bugfixes, internal changes, mixer feature) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: disable and enable the tuneUp and tuneDown actions in their handlers so that we don't stack events that come in too fast - saa/saa.c and modules/btchannels.py: change the saa tuning code a bit, shouldn't reset before or after tuning and shouldn't re-run (if_)init, also try having muted sound with chan1 not 2 (seems some cards dont have a chan2) - keep devices open: - saa/saa.c: open iic device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit - bt848/bt848.c: open tuner device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit (and remove bktr audio hack; audio needs device opened) - it may still be possible to "loose tuning" when hitting PgUp or PgDown like a madman with saa (one has to restart kbtv then), not sure - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: add feature to choose mixer channel in the GUI, if the detected chan is the wrong one; with pwc use mic for volume control - fixed a typo bug with saa, accidentally found its output when googling! - update docs (new pics for GUI menus and rearrange/update text) 22-01-2007: 1.2.1, point release (some bugfixes) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: don't mute audio when the KbtvHardwareInfo dialog is being initialized; at least give the mixer channel detection a chance :) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: noticed that when switching drivers at fullscreen I needed to expand the video area to fullscreen again, fixed - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: pause viewer for a short while when tuning to another channel to hide static - modules/btchannels.py: sleep a bit longer after saa.tuner_frequency_set() - modules/btchannels.py: small bug with EXT0 (default channel 0): it can't be re-added (no fix, need to rewrite the whole channel code sometime) 19-01-2007: 1.2 - resurrected the kbtv project! - improved SAA tuning code, hopefully no more "dead tuning" problems - strange behaviour with QTimer (used for muting while changing channels) when using ULE, removed for now, try again later with Qt4 - smoother size and driver switching (for resize: no more restarting of capture or sleeping, this was a poor choice motivated by bktr having a nicer image when its capture size equals the display size) - reworked the viewers (in C), now part of the bt848, saa, pwc modules - work around new bktr (un)muting weirdness by keeping tuner open (FreeBSD-6.2, noticed when testing with my old Miro and WinTV cards) - start thinking about reworking bthardware/btsetup, for example use HAL, perhaps make a setup wizard (not sure if worth it) 30-07-2006: 1.1.3, point release (bugfixes) - when changing size (restarting viewer) bktr would sometimes freeze, increase sleep time to 1 sec, don't sleep if using saa (Kbtv/kbtv_part.py) 24-07-2006: 1.1.2, point release (saa/MK3 fixes) NOTE! IF YOU USE THE KBTV PORT YOU SHOULD "make rmconfig" BEFORE "make" - fixes for saa with MK3 tuners, including IF section programming -- may benefit other tuner types as well - it should now be possible to select PAL B/G, I, D/K, L, L', NTSC M/N, NTSC Japan broadcast standard (obviously I can only test my own, PAL B/G) - problems where tuning won't work (unless card already used in another OS) should be gone now -- my Avermedia card works now after power off/on - in buildprefs.py (or port options) one should set tuner API type and broadcast standard, iic address is now detected at runtime - this stuff is reflected in the saa module by the new functions tuner_if_init and tuner_init, as well as the revised tuner_frequency_set function -- the original saa support code for tuner programming is not used/compiled anymore - adapt hardware and GUI code where needed - misc bugfixes, probably also introduced a few new ones :) - update this file, README and KDE docs 25-06-2006: 1.1.1, point release (bugfixes) - fix runtime problem (implicit cast was asssumed) in bt848.c on AMD64 - a few btsetup bugfixes - swig version must be taken into account, we need swig13 (+), not swig11 - update imported pwcbsd codebase to latest version (1.3) 04-06-2006: 1.1 - new SDL viewers for bt848 and saa, currently they are rather minimal stand-alone apps and wrapped as BTBackEnd objects in python as were formerly mplayer and tvv - required to build/install/run now: SDL, SWIG, and PyKDE, plus pygame for pwc - add menu entry for size, small-medium-large, saaviewer is SDL downscaled while btviewer changes the actual capture size because this produces a better image at smaller than maximum capture size - free resizing has been shelved for now, expect this to come back later though; it requires moving the viewers into a library and pushing Qt resizing events into the SDL event loop (the stand-alone btviewer and saaviewer, while having -w and -h switches to set the initial size, are freely resizable) - update this file, README, KDE docs, pydocs, upload some screenshots - make a new port that properly deals with the new pwcbsd port (the pwc python module is built from the pwcbsd included with kbtv anyway, but pwc kernel module should be/have been installed from the pwcbsd port) 23-04-2006: 1.0.1 (never released) - add support for USB webcams made by Philips, Logitech and others, that work with the pwc kernel module from raaf.atspace.org - the driver is included and built with kbtv (see buildprefs.py) - rendering is done internally, requires pygame (formerly py-sdl) - the GUI has a driver switch (pwc may be greyed out) - instead of channel-up and -down functionality as with TV cards, with pwc you get panning (left-right) and tilting (up-down) provided your camera supports it - channel editor makes no sense with a one-signal webcam, it's greyed out - expand btsetup to include pwc (where it makes sense) 10-04-2006: 1.0 - add support for Philips SAA chip based TV cards, -- AverMedia and others -- using the kernel module and TV viewer from purpe.com - tuning and input source switching functionality is in the saa module (works exactly the same as bt848 module) and viewer backend is tvv - the driver and viewer are included and built with kbtv - some differences with bktr: saa has no AFC functionality, for embedding the viewer must be launched first (contrary to mplayer) so you see it pop up and then embed, the video standard (PAL or NTSC) and tuner type (Philips, LG, Alps, Temic) are compile-time options, as well as the IIC addresses to be used; see buildprefs.py - if there is saa support (and module loaded), saa is used, if not bktr - if both are supported, the GUI has a driver switch (saa may be greyed out) - hardware info changes if another driver is selected - channel editor and behaviour remains the same, independent of the driver - both backends use XV and there's no longer a GUI switch to choose this - expand btsetup to include saa (where it makes sense, saa has no sysctls for example) 10-02-2006: RC3 - redesign and rewrite ground-up - new build/install scripts - the format how channel lists are saved has changed, sorry - add full-screen switch - now for adding to channel list it's possible to enter a list of frequencies and/or a channelset and/or a composite device. Freqs/chansets can use AFC (default) to autotune up to +/- 2 MHz. Then after its shown the user still has the chance to manually tune (same range) and accept or reject it - integrated mplayer input config file (see below rc2) into backend code - mainwindow is now a kpart, I'm not sure what for but it is :) - dcop interface renewed, has all GUI actions and most get/set things - default kbtv rendering is now xv, default size back to 400x300 - btcontrol removed (now bt848 module), btsetup utility added - new (KDE) docs written, python modules have docstrings all over 16-12-2005: rc2 - make the default size a bit smaller; 360x270 for the video now, better for lower screen resolutions - make kbtv resize back to its default size when changing rendering method (probably the best solution for now) - deal with keyboard input when focus is on the video widget, well frankly, dodge dealing with them by using the "mute" command for mplayer key bindings (mplayer has no dummy command, and kbtv's audio isn't handled through mplayer anyway so mute can be my dummy). Reason is that otherwise the user can stop mplayer by keyboard with no clear way to restart it. The user is also not expected to know all of mplayer's default key bindings. Changes been made so that no unexpected things can happen from using the keyboard when focus is on the video area. The one exception is the space bar which pauses and unpauses the video (useful and harmless) - this requires installing an mplayer input.conf file (input.kbtv) and having kbtv symlinking this to user's ~/.mplayer dir if not already - a few minor bugfixes (I hope), docs unchanged for now - become release candidate 2, PR updated port (plist, portrevision, distfile) 04-12-2005: rc1 - add DCOP interface; to try run kbtv and then `kdcop' or `dcop kbtv Kbtv' - in conjunction, add functionality to directly enter a channel number or a composite when prefixed with "E" - put this inputbox together with the volume slider as one toolbar widget - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this plus screenshot - become release candidate 1, PR the port now, I need testers 29-11-2005: beta2 - add functionality to retrieve ALL frequencies from channelsets (by norm) - also make it possible to add/substract 1 or 2 MHz for more accutare tuning - best method remains entering frequencies if user knows, both work together - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this, enhanced "Add" dialog - if no audiosource is reported by btcontrol, make it be 0 in btcontrol.py 25-11-2005: beta1 - remove the scanner, it just doesn't work reliably using status (thanks Steve) - remove the test scripts - remove signal (status) from btcontrol - add functionality to add (a list of) frequencies to channel list - reflect changes in manpage and kbtv documentation - hold funeral for scanner and go beta to forget it 23-11-2005: alpha5 - fix bug in scanner that has krept in; scan result got lost - add warnings when bktr or tuner device doesn't exist or is not user RW - remove scan console output again, keep test scripts 10-11-2005: alpha4 - added a test script that runs some progressive tests and in the end kbtv; the tests are to be expanded/changed as needed. 06-11-2005: alpha3 - handle hw.bt848 sysctls for card, tuner, format if they are set (whether they work or not) - temporarily have (rudimentary) console output for frequency scanning so you can see/report what happens - more heuristics for frequency scanning, now it runs a prescan to see if the uppermost signal value should be discarded or not (with both my cards it should be, with others apparently it should not) 03-11-2005: alpha2 - btcontrol.c should build with gcc295 and on non-i386 now - partially fixed side effects having to do with the editor being a persistant object; scanned frequencies now appear in the editor as they should, they always get appended to the list though (merge/replace broken) - a few other small things 01-11-2005: initial alpha version

  posted 1063 days ago

• kbtv-1.2.3 released

  Bugfix release. The audio mixer channel detection has been axed. It has always been problematic, and now we have a GUI selector for mixerchan. Also some small misc fixes. Updated docs.

  posted by kbtv 1063 days ago

• File released: /kbtv/1.2.3/kbtv-1.2.3.tbz

  posted 1063 days ago

• kbtv 1.2.2 file released: kbtv-1.2.2.tbz

  This is the NEWS file for kbtv 01-02-2007: 1.2.2, point release (bugfixes, internal changes, mixer feature) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: disable and enable the tuneUp and tuneDown actions in their handlers so that we don't stack events that come in too fast - saa/saa.c and modules/btchannels.py: change the saa tuning code a bit, shouldn't reset before or after tuning and shouldn't re-run (if_)init, also try having muted sound with chan1 not 2 (seems some cards dont have a chan2) - keep devices open: - saa/saa.c: open iic device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit - bt848/bt848.c: open tuner device at tuner_init, close at tuner_quit (and remove bktr audio hack; audio needs device opened) - it may still be possible to "loose tuning" when hitting PgUp or PgDown like a madman with saa (one has to restart kbtv then), not sure - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: add feature to choose mixer channel in the GUI, if the detected chan is the wrong one; with pwc use mic for volume control - fixed a typo bug with saa, accidentally found its output when googling! - update docs (new pics for GUI menus and rearrange/update text) 22-01-2007: 1.2.1, point release (some bugfixes) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: don't mute audio when the KbtvHardwareInfo dialog is being initialized; at least give the mixer channel detection a chance :) - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: noticed that when switching drivers at fullscreen I needed to expand the video area to fullscreen again, fixed - Kbtv/kbtv_part.py: pause viewer for a short while when tuning to another channel to hide static - modules/btchannels.py: sleep a bit longer after saa.tuner_frequency_set() - modules/btchannels.py: small bug with EXT0 (default channel 0): it can't be re-added (no fix, need to rewrite the whole channel code sometime) 19-01-2007: 1.2 - resurrected the kbtv project! - improved SAA tuning code, hopefully no more "dead tuning" problems - strange behaviour with QTimer (used for muting while changing channels) when using ULE, removed for now, try again later with Qt4 - smoother size and driver switching (for resize: no more restarting of capture or sleeping, this was a poor choice motivated by bktr having a nicer image when its capture size equals the display size) - reworked the viewers (in C), now part of the bt848, saa, pwc modules - work around new bktr (un)muting weirdness by keeping tuner open (FreeBSD-6.2, noticed when testing with my old Miro and WinTV cards) - start thinking about reworking bthardware/btsetup, for example use HAL, perhaps make a setup wizard (not sure if worth it) 30-07-2006: 1.1.3, point release (bugfixes) - when changing size (restarting viewer) bktr would sometimes freeze, increase sleep time to 1 sec, don't sleep if using saa (Kbtv/kbtv_part.py) 24-07-2006: 1.1.2, point release (saa/MK3 fixes) NOTE! IF YOU USE THE KBTV PORT YOU SHOULD "make rmconfig" BEFORE "make" - fixes for saa with MK3 tuners, including IF section programming -- may benefit other tuner types as well - it should now be possible to select PAL B/G, I, D/K, L, L', NTSC M/N, NTSC Japan broadcast standard (obviously I can only test my own, PAL B/G) - problems where tuning won't work (unless card already used in another OS) should be gone now -- my Avermedia card works now after power off/on - in buildprefs.py (or port options) one should set tuner API type and broadcast standard, iic address is now detected at runtime - this stuff is reflected in the saa module by the new functions tuner_if_init and tuner_init, as well as the revised tuner_frequency_set function -- the original saa support code for tuner programming is not used/compiled anymore - adapt hardware and GUI code where needed - misc bugfixes, probably also introduced a few new ones :) - update this file, README and KDE docs 25-06-2006: 1.1.1, point release (bugfixes) - fix runtime problem (implicit cast was asssumed) in bt848.c on AMD64 - a few btsetup bugfixes - swig version must be taken into account, we need swig13 (+), not swig11 - update imported pwcbsd codebase to latest version (1.3) 04-06-2006: 1.1 - new SDL viewers for bt848 and saa, currently they are rather minimal stand-alone apps and wrapped as BTBackEnd objects in python as were formerly mplayer and tvv - required to build/install/run now: SDL, SWIG, and PyKDE, plus pygame for pwc - add menu entry for size, small-medium-large, saaviewer is SDL downscaled while btviewer changes the actual capture size because this produces a better image at smaller than maximum capture size - free resizing has been shelved for now, expect this to come back later though; it requires moving the viewers into a library and pushing Qt resizing events into the SDL event loop (the stand-alone btviewer and saaviewer, while having -w and -h switches to set the initial size, are freely resizable) - update this file, README, KDE docs, pydocs, upload some screenshots - make a new port that properly deals with the new pwcbsd port (the pwc python module is built from the pwcbsd included with kbtv anyway, but pwc kernel module should be/have been installed from the pwcbsd port) 23-04-2006: 1.0.1 (never released) - add support for USB webcams made by Philips, Logitech and others, that work with the pwc kernel module from raaf.atspace.org - the driver is included and built with kbtv (see buildprefs.py) - rendering is done internally, requires pygame (formerly py-sdl) - the GUI has a driver switch (pwc may be greyed out) - instead of channel-up and -down functionality as with TV cards, with pwc you get panning (left-right) and tilting (up-down) provided your camera supports it - channel editor makes no sense with a one-signal webcam, it's greyed out - expand btsetup to include pwc (where it makes sense) 10-04-2006: 1.0 - add support for Philips SAA chip based TV cards, -- AverMedia and others -- using the kernel module and TV viewer from purpe.com - tuning and input source switching functionality is in the saa module (works exactly the same as bt848 module) and viewer backend is tvv - the driver and viewer are included and built with kbtv - some differences with bktr: saa has no AFC functionality, for embedding the viewer must be launched first (contrary to mplayer) so you see it pop up and then embed, the video standard (PAL or NTSC) and tuner type (Philips, LG, Alps, Temic) are compile-time options, as well as the IIC addresses to be used; see buildprefs.py - if there is saa support (and module loaded), saa is used, if not bktr - if both are supported, the GUI has a driver switch (saa may be greyed out) - hardware info changes if another driver is selected - channel editor and behaviour remains the same, independent of the driver - both backends use XV and there's no longer a GUI switch to choose this - expand btsetup to include saa (where it makes sense, saa has no sysctls for example) 10-02-2006: RC3 - redesign and rewrite ground-up - new build/install scripts - the format how channel lists are saved has changed, sorry - add full-screen switch - now for adding to channel list it's possible to enter a list of frequencies and/or a channelset and/or a composite device. Freqs/chansets can use AFC (default) to autotune up to +/- 2 MHz. Then after its shown the user still has the chance to manually tune (same range) and accept or reject it - integrated mplayer input config file (see below rc2) into backend code - mainwindow is now a kpart, I'm not sure what for but it is :) - dcop interface renewed, has all GUI actions and most get/set things - default kbtv rendering is now xv, default size back to 400x300 - btcontrol removed (now bt848 module), btsetup utility added - new (KDE) docs written, python modules have docstrings all over 16-12-2005: rc2 - make the default size a bit smaller; 360x270 for the video now, better for lower screen resolutions - make kbtv resize back to its default size when changing rendering method (probably the best solution for now) - deal with keyboard input when focus is on the video widget, well frankly, dodge dealing with them by using the "mute" command for mplayer key bindings (mplayer has no dummy command, and kbtv's audio isn't handled through mplayer anyway so mute can be my dummy). Reason is that otherwise the user can stop mplayer by keyboard with no clear way to restart it. The user is also not expected to know all of mplayer's default key bindings. Changes been made so that no unexpected things can happen from using the keyboard when focus is on the video area. The one exception is the space bar which pauses and unpauses the video (useful and harmless) - this requires installing an mplayer input.conf file (input.kbtv) and having kbtv symlinking this to user's ~/.mplayer dir if not already - a few minor bugfixes (I hope), docs unchanged for now - become release candidate 2, PR updated port (plist, portrevision, distfile) 04-12-2005: rc1 - add DCOP interface; to try run kbtv and then `kdcop' or `dcop kbtv Kbtv' - in conjunction, add functionality to directly enter a channel number or a composite when prefixed with "E" - put this inputbox together with the volume slider as one toolbar widget - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this plus screenshot - become release candidate 1, PR the port now, I need testers 29-11-2005: beta2 - add functionality to retrieve ALL frequencies from channelsets (by norm) - also make it possible to add/substract 1 or 2 MHz for more accutare tuning - best method remains entering frequencies if user knows, both work together - update Kbtv documentation to explain/reflect this, enhanced "Add" dialog - if no audiosource is reported by btcontrol, make it be 0 in btcontrol.py 25-11-2005: beta1 - remove the scanner, it just doesn't work reliably using status (thanks Steve) - remove the test scripts - remove signal (status) from btcontrol - add functionality to add (a list of) frequencies to channel list - reflect changes in manpage and kbtv documentation - hold funeral for scanner and go beta to forget it 23-11-2005: alpha5 - fix bug in scanner that has krept in; scan result got lost - add warnings when bktr or tuner device doesn't exist or is not user RW - remove scan console output again, keep test scripts 10-11-2005: alpha4 - added a test script that runs some progressive tests and in the end kbtv; the tests are to be expanded/changed as needed. 06-11-2005: alpha3 - handle hw.bt848 sysctls for card, tuner, format if they are set (whether they work or not) - temporarily have (rudimentary) console output for frequency scanning so you can see/report what happens - more heuristics for frequency scanning, now it runs a prescan to see if the uppermost signal value should be discarded or not (with both my cards it should be, with others apparently it should not) 03-11-2005: alpha2 - btcontrol.c should build with gcc295 and on non-i386 now - partially fixed side effects having to do with the editor being a persistant object; scanned frequencies now appear in the editor as they should, they always get appended to the list though (merge/replace broken) - a few other small things 01-11-2005: initial alpha version

  posted 1066 days ago