Big Time Meeting

IRC Meeting minutes – Saturday January 20, 2007

Minutes by: AsGF2MX

General

• Latest vendor release (Ingenient, codec improvements) merged

  • Next firmware release expected to have better A/V quality

• Major logic redesign/fixes of

  • Recording settings

  • playback/rewind/forward controls

  • GUI optimizations and fixes (more responsive)

• Current release (0.58 contains kernel debug symbols)

• Build help script not in place to assist entire osdmain build process

• Next release on Tuesday

Pending issues

• RAM Save patch recalled due to a Nano-X support problem (under investigation)

• Latest vendor release contains API changes (at plug-in level) – causes stability issues

• NTSC/PAL output switch not working (part of the video encoder system, goes through the plug-in system – see above)

• Frame by frame playback/rewind/forward still has problems

• SMB/CIFS support (SAMBA) has some minor issues

• No clean up if LAN is disconnected before the share is “ejected”

• System will crash if the LAN is disconnected while a share is being accessed

• IRRTC split not completed

• Manufacture side porting incomplete

  • The input system brought in significantly degrades GUI response (pending investigation

  • Needs access to IRRTC to work, porting pending

Discussion

• GUI considerations

  • Low level “screens” handle to many keys/events on their own

    • Create a more central place to handle global keys/events (e.g. “Home”)

  • Create parameters to allow change of GUI size

    • “ that is actually we have the _X and _Y macro there to calculate the GUI size off the frame buffer size”

  • GTK style widget packing to permit scalability while maintaining look and feel

• Scratchbox considerations

  • Not everyone is happy with it

  • Kernel builds, etc agreed to stay the way they are

  • Build-helper helps with Neuros applications and BSP

    • 3^rd party applications using GNU autotools are a mess to cross compile

    • Scratchbox may be better for building 3^rd party applications

• Possibility of creating a new API for providing access to FB driver parameters

  • May provide for over/under scan problem

Next Meeting on Saturday January 20, 2007 at 4PM GMT

Next Meeting on Saturday January 20, 2007 at 4PM GMT