Re: eMPIA camera support?

[CityK <cityk@rogers.com>]

hermann pitton wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.12.2008, 21:54 -0500 schrieb CityK:
>   
>> hermann pitton wrote:
>>> schrieb CityK:
>>>> While the bttv gallery remains a very useful resource, I don't believe that Gunther is maintaining it any more. In any regard
>>>> let s use the V4L-DVB wiki (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), as it is best to keep the information all in one
>>>> place (i.e. a centralized repository of knowledge and information), as opposed to spread out across multiple 3rd party sources.  
>>> let's see. It still has lots of advantages.
>>> Hacking of hundreds of tuners and advanced gpio and eeprom detection was
>>> coordinated there on requests for research coming up on the lists and it
>>> has several thousand contributors. A wiki was not even in sight then.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to see it further maintained for easy searching on hard
>>> facts.
>>>
>>> At least don't call it third party.
>>>
>>> That is as mad as if you would call the video4linux-list or bytesex.org
>>> third party.
>>>
>>> It is/was to that point the official hardware resource and Gunther a
>>> leading tuner/hardware developer and nothing else.
>>>       
>> This is true, and I don't mean to offend anyone's sensibilities about
>> it.  Likewise, I did state that it remains a very useful resource.
>>
>> However, I haven't seen a word of boo from Gunther in probably two years
>> time.  Secondly, some of those users that I had, in the past, requested
>> that they submit material to the bttv-gallery have later written/replied
>> to me that their submissions went unanswered/unacknowledged.  Thirdly,
>> despite Gunther's distinguished history and involvement, it is likely
>> unclear to an unassuming end user that there is anything other then a
>> passing relation between the project and the "bttv-gallery".
>>     
>
> That is all OK so far.
>
> But it is not about sensibilities, but usability in the first place.
>   

Your points are duly noted ... and I have attempted to convey the crux
of your message in the note provided here: 
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_How_to_add_support_for_a_device#Don.27t_forget_to_send_info_to_the_Wiki_.21

> I give an example in short.
>
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCI_Cards
>
> This starts with some ASUS My Cinema P7131-Dual model and the photos are
> taken from there. But that user had a P7131 Hybrid and he was the only
> one ever reporting problems like this,
>
> DVB, VDR, (***unstable*** causes random memory corruption and crashes),
>
> but stays on top of all recent PCI cards with hybrid tuners and speaks
> for all Asus saa713x ...
>
> This should be meanwhile eight different cards including the not yet
> externally documented Asus Tiger 3in1 I guess.
>
> It of cause continues here.
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ASUS_My_Cinema-P7131_Hybrid
>
> Almost all is wrong or at least not differentiated enough.
>
> If you look at the bttv-gallery for the related cards,
> there is at least _nothing_ wrong.
>   

Well, in these particular regards, I can only reply with what I have
previously noted in the wiki in several places, such as:
- from the Main page "welcome" message:   "Like all other wikis, the
V4L-DVB wiki relies upon the contributions of its users. Hence, it will
only be as useful as we make it!"
- from the DVB-T PCI Cards' note entitled "Please be aware that":  "The
information contained here is likely non-exhaustive and, despite best
efforts to do otherwise, may contain errors. (Please help to keep these
lists up-to-date so that they are useful for everyone!)"