From mpav@purdue.edu Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:29:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:29:54 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew R. Pavlovich mpav@purdue.edu Subject: [Livid-dev] Quickies.. *Last week I was out of town, and I am still catching up on e-mails. I know there are a lot of things along the lines of CVS access, and CVS modules.. I will send replies to all those by Sunday. *I'd like to welcome Stea Greene from the GATOS project. (ATI TV and video overlay). He is gonna (hopefully soon) be working on the backend scalar driver for ATI Rage Pro chips. http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/ Stea- check out the mga_vid module.. That is the one for Matrox Gx00's. *I am having issues trying to get the necassary tools on the web server for the new site. I hope to get things square by this weekend. *Matrox notes: I have not recieved any replies from Matrox regarding documentions for TV Out and more extensive information on the Media Bus. I hope to have news soon regarding whether or not they use WARP for MPEG2 decoding. If they do, then hopefully we can get the microcode, in a similar manner as the GLX project. *Plans. Once the new site is up, hopefully I can attract other projects to join and we can have a more centralized resource for the video projects. I would like to start a list of DVD drives that we know work, as well as titles that have been tested. It's a little premature for attracting users, but due to the popularity of the project I hope it will help alleviate the load on my e-mail box. A livid-users list may be in order, but a similar list is not very trafficed w/ the GLX project.. we'll see. *CVS Access. I would like to propose just a quick policy on CVS access, (request for comment, of course), I like the idea of the authors maintaining control of their code and having a say as to what patches get applied. Instead of having to deal with backing out changes, I am asking that anyone wanting to have CVS write access to send your patches to the list, contact the author and have them give me the 'ok' to allow new accounts. Thoughts? Matthew R. Pavlovich
From giles@raj.phys.sfu.ca Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:55:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:55:34 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Giles giles@raj.phys.sfu.ca Subject: [Livid-dev] Quickies.. On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Matthew R. Pavlovich wrote: > *Last week I was out of town, and I am still catching up on e-mails. I > know there are a lot of things along the lines of CVS access, and CVS > modules.. I will send replies to all those by Sunday. Welcome back! :) > *Plans. Once the new site is up, hopefully I can attract other projects > to join and we can have a more centralized resource for the video > projects. I would like to start a list of DVD drives that we know work, > as well as titles that have been tested. It's a little premature for > attracting users, but due to the popularity of the project I hope it will > help alleviate the load on my e-mail box. A livid-users list may be in > order, but a similar list is not very trafficed w/ the GLX project.. > we'll see. Hmm, it's true that there's no as much traffic on glx-users, but I've really liked having it. It's removed all the "It's impossible to compile this" messages from the devel list, improving the signal-to-noise in glx-dev. I think it will only be more helpful in the future as the glx module gets more popular to have a separate forum to support users at that level of experience. Eliminating support email for those who don't want it is a good thing. :) > *CVS Access. I would like to propose just a quick policy on CVS access, > (request for comment, of course), I like the idea of the authors > maintaining control of their code and having a say as to what patches get > applied. Instead of having to deal with backing out changes, I am asking > that anyone wanting to have CVS write access to send your patches to the > list, contact the author and have them give me the 'ok' to allow new > accounts. Thoughts? I guess we're already doing this with ac3dec. I'm of course happy to respect any such policy, but imho our problem is not enough commits, not too many. :) I'm concerned that unless the maintaining author is doing active development with the livid archives as their primary repository, this is just going to slow down commits even more. The great thing about cvs is that everybody can easily keep in sync without having to apply interesting patches by hand. Just my thoughts, -ralph
From aholtzma@ess4.engr.UVic.CA Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:15:13 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:15:13 -0800 From: Aaron Holtzman aholtzma@ess4.engr.UVic.CA Subject: [Livid-dev] Quickies.. It would seem that Matthew R. Pavlovich (mpav@purdue.edu) said: > *I'd like to welcome Stea Greene from the GATOS project. (ATI TV and > video overlay). He is gonna (hopefully soon) be working on the backend > scalar driver for ATI Rage Pro chips. We should maybe discuss a common api for talking to the BES on different cards. > *CVS Access. I would like to propose just a quick policy on CVS access, > (request for comment, of course), I like the idea of the authors > maintaining control of their code and having a say as to what patches get > applied. Amen. This is exactly how I would like to run things. On a completely unrelated note, I will release a snapshot of my work-in-progress MPEG-2 video backend on saturday. It probably won't do much more than parse the stream and display green blobish I-frames, but I believe the time has come for other peoples input and hacks. Bone up on your ISO 13818-2 people, we need more brains that understand what frame_pred_frame_dct means :) cheers, aaron
From aholtzma@ess4.engr.UVic.CA Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:32:50 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:32:50 -0800 From: Aaron Holtzman aholtzma@ess4.engr.UVic.CA Subject: [Livid-dev] Quickies.. It would seem that Ralph Giles (giles@raj.phys.sfu.ca) said: > I guess we're already doing this with ac3dec. I'm of course happy to > respect any such policy, but imho our problem is not enough commits, not > too many. :) > The ac3dec module in cvs right now is completely pointless. I could probably be talked into moving my own cvs tree onto a server somewhere that had ssh access. I've been looking at www.sourceforge.org, and it looks like these guys have their act together. What do people think about moving new cvs stuff over there? cheers, aaron
From andreas@andreas.org 06 Dec 1999 21:15:28 -0500 Date: 06 Dec 1999 21:15:28 -0500 From: Andreas Bogk andreas@andreas.org Subject: [Livid-dev] Quickies.. Aaron Holtzman < aholtzma@ess4.engr.UVic.CA> writes: > The ac3dec module in cvs right now is completely pointless. I > could probably be talked into moving my own cvs tree onto a server > somewhere that had ssh access. If there's interest, we could offer CVS plus ssh accounts on linuxtv.org. We do backups, have a dedicated machine for the purpose, and are conveniently (from a Digital Millenium Copyright Act point of view) located in Germany. Andreas -- "We should be willing to look at the source code we produce not as the end product of a more interesting process, but as an artifact in its own right. It should look good stuck up on the wall." -- http://www.ftech.net/~honeyg/progstone/progstone.html
From axboe@image.dk Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:52:57 +0000 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:52:57 +0000 From: Jens Axboe axboe@image.dk Subject: [Livid-dev] Quickies.. On Fri, Dec 03 1999, Matthew R. Pavlovich wrote: > projects. I would like to start a list of DVD drives that we know work, Please don't, all drives *should* work. -- * Jens Axboe < axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * http://www.kernel.dk