Wow, thanks to all for all the good feedback and suggestions I got about the v4l-dvb driver package. If you are still looking for a nice and feature-rich frontend, you can take a look at the newer vdr packages for Ubuntu.
Hanno, maybe you are interested in maintaining these packages directly in Ubuntu, together with the MOTUs? Then intrepid will always have up to date packages, and it is no problem to backport them to stable releases, 8.04 at least. Then more users could benefit from them, and you’d get more testing from Intrepid users, too.
#1 by Hanno Zulla on 2008/06/11 - 11:31
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Thanks for the suggestion.
It is a slippery topic, though. It seems that Debian, Ubuntu and e-tobi all have slightly different opinions on how to package vdr and to be frank, I don’t know what these differences are or the reason for these differences. All I know is that I like the e-tobi packages best and prefer their style of updates.
We’ll see.
Regards,
Hanno
#2 by Chris Jones on 2008/06/11 - 16:38
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fwiw, there is already an ubuntu vdr team, although it’s not exactly super-active. The main (and realistically only) contributor is Timo Aaltonen. See #ubuntu-vdr on freenode, or the team’s page on launchpad (~ubuntu-vdr)
#3 by Hanno Zulla on 2008/06/11 - 17:58
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Chris, I know. If “my” beta packages find a good response, I will ask him about this, but so far, these packages are just there to scratch my personal itch. Other than that, his vdr package is perfectly fine and I have no intention to step in.
#4 by foo on 2008/06/12 - 07:16
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How about uploading them to Debian instead so that all Debian-derived distros can benefit, not just Ubuntu?
#5 by Hanno Zulla on 2008/06/12 - 15:31
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foo, the e-tobi team is also part of the team for the Debian vdr package:
http://packages.debian.org/etch/vdr
So what you suggest is already being done.
#6 by Timo Aaltonen on 2008/06/12 - 16:20
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Hanno,
Debian has only a subset of the plugins/patches that e-tobi has, since some of them are abandoned or experimental. We’ve added a couple of plugins for Ubuntu that we found useful (could be ITP’d for Debian too), so the differences are not that big.
#7 by loeppel on 2008/06/13 - 16:52
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Oh, but the Ubuntu Packages are not that good. Many issues (see launchpad bugs) if you use them on amd64 with xineliboutput!!
#8 by michelev on 2008/07/05 - 18:16
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hi,
I have a problem with my Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Stick Solo 72e on ubuntu Hardy
Any suggestion?
this is the mine dkms status
v4l-dvb, 0.20080610, 2.6.24-19-generic, x86_64: installed (original_module exists)
tnx
#9 by marklong on 2009/02/15 - 23:34
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I added the repositories, PGP key and invoked apt-get on two different ‘Intrepid’ machines, apt-get returns the following:
mark-l@neerim-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install v4l-dvb-dkms
[sudo] password for mark-l:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package v4l-dvb-dkms
Am I consitently getting this wrong?
DKMS status has no entry for v4l
#10 by martinpitt on 2009/02/16 - 09:29
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@marklong: This package exists only for hardy, and there you have to enable my PPA. See the original blog post.