Mini-project DVB support for Windows - offer to help

kenself · Postby **kenself** » 27 Jan 2007 14:17

Hi all
I am interested in working on the mini-project to develop DVB support for Windows.
Target machine is a P3 500MHz WinXP Home with Hauppauge Nova-T-500 dual DVB-T tuners. On that machine I run DVB-Webscheduler and VLC to stream the files across my LAN.
My development machine is a dual boot AMD64 Athlon 3200+ running both Win XP Pro and Ubuntu. I have installed gcc and also built a gcc cross-compiler for mingw. I have not yet tested the cross-compiler.
I’ve done lots of programming in many languages including c++ but for many years it has been a hobby rather than a profession. Included in that I have written the odd device driver but that was a long time ago.
Downside is that I am not very familiar with BDA (although I have started studying it) and the svn thing is completely foreign to me. I’m also studying the relevant bits of VLC but struggling a bit to know where to start.
I’m happy to do anything to help including coding, testing, documenting as I’d really like to get it working. I just need to be pointed in the right direction

I subscribed to the vlc-devel mailing list and posted the same message there but I must have done something wrong coz it didn't show up.

ken

Postby **Lotesdelere** » 04 Feb 2007 22:21

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Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 04 Feb 2007 22:24

Oh. I did not see that.
Please re-mail it ! It must have not been through spam filters... Sorry.

Please, we will welcome your help. Really. To start, come on IRC

and compile a VLC

kenself · Postby **kenself** » 06 Feb 2007 00:24

Thanks j-b.

I have just successfully compiled vlc on Linux. Now trying to cross-compile to mingw but hitting a little snag with windows include files (ole2.h). I've got them but can't get ./configure to see them.

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 06 Feb 2007 00:30

how have you tried ?
If you are not able to do that (compile process of vlc is not so easy), ask on vlc-devel@v.o or on IRC (evening CET)

kenself · Postby **kenself** » 07 Feb 2007 00:32

Problem fixed. A small matter of configure wanting the i686-pc-mingw32 prefixed version of the compiler. Now I'm hitting some real bugs so its off to IRC or the mailing list.

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 07 Feb 2007 00:48

Yes. That is the best way to target most devs.

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