From 4aad3134beb551c820d3bfb5e26f8829e109aca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:09:38 -0300 Subject: Add a README file to explain how to generate the dvbv3 files Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- README | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87561ee --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +All tables are now using DVBv5 format. That allows suporting all standards +available on a standard way. + +A Makefile target is provided to convert to the legacy channel format. +For it to work, you need to have v4l-utils installed (specifically, +the v4l-utils package that contains the dvbv5 utils). + +Be sure that you have at least version 1.4.0 installed, or, if you're +compiling v4l-utils from its source. Versions below may work too, but +some DVB files won't be properly parsed with earlier versions. + +This is the minimal changeset of v4l-utils required for it to work: + commit 64751eb98a15b9c0077d8c2e4409b9b69ac80448 + Date: Fri Sep 5 15:50:43 2014 -0300 + Subject: libdvbv5: make sure that all needed properties are filled + +You can download and install v4l-utils from: + http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/v4l-utils.git/ + +Once having it installed, generating all the tables usind DVBv3 channel +format is as easy as running: + + $ make clean + $ make dvbv3 + +The files can also be individually converted from DVBv5 to DVBv3 with: + + $ dvb-format-convert -I dvbv5 -O channel dvb-c/ch-Rega-Sense legacy-format-ch-Rega-Sense + +And converting back into DVBv5 format with: + + $ dvb-format-convert -I channel -O dvbv5 legacy-format-ch-Rega-Sense dvb-c/ch-Rega-Sense + +Plese notice that comments are not preserved when doing the conversions. + +PS.: If you're willing to submit new entries and/or corrections, please +be sure to send them at the DVBv5 format and sending them via e-mail +to linux-media@vger.kernel.org. -- cgit v0.12