Re: IPT lirc 0.6.0
Can someone tell me what bttv stands for ? (The 2 last characters are probably
for television, but what are the first 2 ?)
>
> Hi!
>
> ---
> LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals
> of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
> Pre-release versions are currently available at the LIRC homepage:
> http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~columbus/lirc/
>
> Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial
> or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found
> on the LIRC homepage. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety
> of other hardware. The state of the drivers for this hardware however
> differs very much. Support for the following devices is very stable:
> Home-brew serial and parallel port hardware, Irman, Anir Multimedia
> Magic, Packard Bell receivers. The drivers for the following TV cards
> might still have problems and are not tested very well: many Hauppauge
> models, Avermedia TV98, Avermedia TV-Phone, Fly Video 98.
> Experimental drivers for the PixelView RemoteMaster, PixelView TV
> cards and Logitech/AST are also included.
> ---
>
> As for now, only cvs and pre releases are available, I'm waiting for the
> final 0.6.0 version to come out to package it. I have already packaged an
> special version with support just for my AverMedia card. However I'd like
> to make the package available for all the posible hardware.
>
> This will be my fisrt public package, it's gonna be sponsored, I already
> have an oficial developer to sponsor me, but I'll sure need help, so
> you'll hear from me here or in debian-mentors ;-)
>
> About the hardware for wich lirc is available I have to say that for some
> of it you need kernel patches, and on some cases this don't even come with
> lirc, on some other cases the patch won't work, or will need bttv version
> X.XX instead of the usual bttv for the kernel, ... so it is a bit messy,
> let's hope this changes before the final 0.6.0 version release, otherwise
> I'm gonna have quite a lot of job ;-)
>
> Regards...
>
> Manty/BestiaTester -> http://www.mantianito.ddns.org
>
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