News

Media CI improvements over time and the start of testing Sashiko as another CI report bot

mchehab

To reduce ML traffic on the linux-media mailing list at vger, media CI, Jenkins, and other bots now have a dedicated mailing list:

• Media CI mailing list

If you are interested in receiving feedback from CI tests, please subscribe to the list.

mchehab

On May 26 2026, we had a day long Media Mini Summit, discussing many media topics.

hverkuil

On May 13 2025, we had a day long Media Mini Summit, discussing many media topics.

hverkuil

On Sept 16 2024, we had a day long Media Mini Summit, discussing many media topics.

hverkuil

It happened during the Media Mini Summit Dublin - Sep 12 and 13, 2022

It mentioned that the report about the Kernel CAM topic that happened on would be posted later, so I'm pleased to finally post that. Thanks to all who participated in the meetings and the reviewing of this report.

hverkuil

On September 12th, 2022 we had a day long Media Mini Summit, discussing many media topics. It was the first time after three years without meetings that we finally could get together again.

hverkuil

From now on, the main IRC channel will be #linux-media at irc.oftc.net

mchehab

We now have a new instance running Continuous Integration(CI) builds at:

• https://builder.linuxtv.org/

Using some VMs generously provided by OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/).

mchehab

In addition to the official Edinburgh's Media Summit, there was an extra meeting to discuss Stateless Codecs implementation. The meeting notes are enclosed here.

sailus

Here’s the report on the Media Summit held on 25th October in Edinburgh. The report is followed by the stateless codec discussion two days earlier.

sailus

The next Linux Media Mini Summit will happen on Oct, 25 on Edinburgh, Scotland together with Embedded Linux Conference Europe

hverkuil

We did a Complex Camera workshop in Tokyo. The main focus of the workshop is to allow supporting devices with MC-based hardware connected to a camera.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

The edid-decode utility is used to decode an EDID into human-readable text. It has been maintained for a long time by Adam Jackson, but he no longer had the time for it, so Hans Verkuil has taken over maintenance and the git repo has been moved to git://linuxtv.org/edid-decode.git.

hverkuil

We'll be doing a Complex Camera workshop in Tokyo. The main focus of the workshop is to allow supporting devices with MC-based hardware connected to a camera.

mchehab

This is the report of the Linux Media Summit 2017, with happened in Prague, October, 2017.

mchehab

We are organizing a media mini-summit on Friday October 27 in Prague, co-located with the ELCE conference:

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe

mchehab

The Digital TV GUI application Kaffeine, originally written as a KDE 4 application was ported to use Qt5 and KDE Foundations 5.

mchehab

This is the first draft of the Linux Media Summit 2016 – San Diego on April, 2016

mchehab

As discussed on our IRC #v4l channel at Freenode, we'll be running a 1-day Linux Media Summit in San Diego on April, 7, just after the Embedded Linux Conference.

Feel free to submit relevant topics related to the Linux Kernel support for media, in order to help us to build the workshop's agenda and take other needs into account when working on it.

As usual, we'll be using the media-workshop@linuxtv.org ML for the specific discussions about that, so the ones interested on participate on such discussions and/or be present there are requested to subscribe it, and to submit themes of interest via the mailing lists.

Please also send an e-mail if you're intending to join us there, to allow us to be sure that we'll have enough seats for the participants.

Hope to see you there!

Regards,
Mauro

mchehab

This is the report for the Linux Kernel Summit Media Workshop in Seoul, South Corea, Oct, 26 2015.

mchehab

This is the first workshop dedicated to the Linux Media Controller.

We had a v4l summit back in 2010 in Finland that established the current foundation for the media controller, and to properly satisfy the needs of reporting the pipelines on the smartphone System on a Chip (SoC).

The focus of this year’s workshop was to clarify the kernel➞userspace interfaces and extend the Media Controller to be used on other subsystems that need to represent graphs like Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), and Industrial I/O (IIO).

mchehab

As discussed on our IRC #v4l channel at Freenode, we'll be running a 3-day Media Controller workshop in Helsinki between July 29-31.

The main goal of this workshop is to fixup the problems with the Media Controller API to properly represent device nodes and the control tree, as this is a requirement for the Media Controller to be used by DVB, ALSA and radio devices.

This is an invitation-only event, as we want to be sure that we'll have there people that are actively working with the Media Controller, DVB and/or ALSA. So, if you think this is for you, please send us an e-mail.

Also, even if you're not able to participate, feel free to submit relevant topics related to the Media Controller, in order to help us to build the workshop's agenda and take other needs into account when working on the needed API changes.

As usual, we'll be using the media-workshop@linuxtv.org ML for the specific discussions about that, so the ones interested on participate on such discussions and/or be present there are requested to subscribe it, and to submit themes of interest via the mailing lists.

For those interested on this theme, I'll add a list of the most relevant past discussions about this theme on this news.

Hope to see you there!
Mauro.

mchehab

The first 2015 Linux Media mini-summit happened in San Jose, CA, USA, on March, 26 2015. The notes taken during the meeting is available here.

mchehab

We had our second 2014's Media Summit on Oct, 17-18 in Düsseldorf.

In the name of the organizing committee, I'd like to thank you all for being there with us during those two days.

There were several good discussions that happened during the meeting, aimed to improve even more the Linux media subsystem.

Also, it was agreed during the meeting that we'll try to reach an even broader audience on the next events. So we're counting with all you on our next year's event(s).

Thanks,
Mauro

The notes taken during the meeting is available here.

mchehab

The first 2014 Linux Media mini-summit happened in San Jose, CA, USA, on May 3rd 2014. The notes taken during the meeting is available here.

mchehab

The next Linux Media Mini Summit will happen on May, 2 in San Jose, CA, USA, just after the Embedded Linux Conference

mchehab

During KS/2013, there was the Linux Kernel Media Workshop in 2013. The final notes of the summit is available.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

During LinuxCon Europe/2012, there was the second Media Workshop in 2012. The discusion notes are now available.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

During KS/2012, there was the first Media Workshop in 2012. The discusion notes are now available.

Presentations for the topics discused there are available here.

mchehab

Report for the Workshop 2011 is already available here.

mchehab

patchwork.linuxtv.org will be used to store all patches sent to the linux-media@vger.kernel.org mailing list.

mchehab

This year, the Media subsystem workshop will happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011

More details are available at the 2011 meeting page.

Since 2007, we're doing annual mini-summits for the media subsystem, in order to plan the new features that will be introduced there.

Last year, during the Kernel Summit 2010, it was decided that the Kernel Summit 2011 format will be modified, in order to strength the interaction between the several sub-system mini-summits and the main Kernel Summit. If this idea works well, the next Kernel Summits will also follow the same format.

So, some mini-summits were proposed to happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011. Among a few others, the Media subsystem was accepted to be held with this year's Kernel Summit.

So, we'd like to announce that the Media subsystem workshop 2011 will happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011.

Enjoy!
Mauro Carvalho Chehab

mchehab

Xawtv3 remained without updates for a long time. So, distros were adding bug fix patches on their packages. Also, some tools used to support just V4L1 API.

A series of patches were added, incorporating the bugfixes found on the distros and converting it to use V4L2 API.

mchehab

A V4L mini-summit was held in Nokia Research Center, in Helsinki, during this Summer, with more than 20 participants.

mchehab

Since today, linuxtv.org starts supporting git tree repositories

mchehab

V4L, DVB and V4L/DVB Maintainers Mailing Lists Were merged on Jan, 2 2009 at vger.kernel.org

mchehab

Several of the most active developers of V4L/DVB, together responsible for about 60% of the committed patches over the last year, made their presence at Linux Plumbers Conference 2008. Some of they presented their views about the evolution of kernel and userspace API evolutions. The slides are now available for download at LinuxTV website.

mchehab

After years of discussions, several patch series and two different proposed approaches, LinuxTV developers finally decided that S2API is the better technical proposal and should be accepted as the way to allow supporting newer DTV standards, starting with DVB-S2.

mchehab

V4L/DVB Miniconf at Linux Plumbers/2008 was handled between Sept, 17 and Sept, 19 2008

mchehab

A new v4l2 library is initiated to implement userspace decompression algorithms that cannot fit in kernelspace.

tmerle

A new category has been added to Kernel Bugzilla, in an effort to expedite the handling of v4l-dvb problem tickets.

mchehab

Big changes at v4l-dvb make internal working

mchehab

New v4l/dvb Mercurial tree available, replacing CVS.

mchehab

New v4l-dvb.git tree at kernel.org

mchehab

We are proud to announce that both project trees will be joined.

mchehab

Video4Linux API version 1 is declared as obsolete, with a deadline marked as July/2006.

mchehab

As a result of the connection between the video4linux and the DVB projects, we now host a V4LWiki and the video4linux CVS on linuxtv.org.

js

There is now a wiki page dedicated to the Linux DVB API v4.

hunold

We finally managed to complete the new linuxtv.org server installation and changed DNS entries to activate the new server.

js

Michael Hunold gave a presentation about the Linux DVB API v4 at the annual CE Linux Forum Technical Conference in San Jose, California, USA on January, 26th.

hunold

DVB major device number has changed from 250 to 212

js

Main DVB driver development focus moves to Linux 2.6.

js

Bugfix release with some frontend improvements.

js

New Drivers, new Cards. Get in sync with the kernel driver.

holger

Bugfix Release

holger

Added Technisat Skystar2 driver + various fixes and improvements.

js

The next prerelease

holger

BMK has released a MPEG2-Encoder based on the Philips SAA68xx (EMPRESS) chip.

ml

Improved AV7110 OSD handling for VDR

js

A new release tarball from the LinuxTV DVB CVS!

js

The DVB API documentation was updated for DVB_API_VERSION 3.

js

Linux DVB API has been added to the Linux 2.5.44-ac1 Kernel.

szymon

Update release for the 1.0.1 release.

szymon

"Well, after more than two years of development, the big moment has finally come: VDR has now officially made it to version 1.0.0!"

szymon

New version of the Margi/Billionton DVD-to-Go PC-Card driver

marcus

A DVBstream client

martin

Digital terrestrial TV on your Linux Box

martin

What to do with the VHS tapes?

martin

Open Source software at its best

martin

Updated to the latest tuning API, added command-line switches

martin

DTV - New (minor) Release 1.2

martin

DivX on your television set

martin

you can always get what you really want

martin

Switched to the driver's new tuning API

martin

RTP multicast DVB transport streams

martin

Automatic shutdown and other improvements

martin

Date/Time display, new Setup parameter MaxVideoFileSize, "Timers" menu

martin

VDR rulez.

martin

High Tech made in South Germany.

martin

new software for internet by satellite

martin

The ultimate home entertainment center - now with DVD player

martin

digital television conspiracy

martin

Now with Dolby Digital sound

martin

Hollywood on Linux

martin

VDR finally uses the new API

martin

New client for controlling the DVB cards

martin

DVB Caroussel generation software for LinuxTV

martin

DirectFB at Guadec 2001

martin

VDR Still uses the old API

martin

LinuxTV Home Cinema.

martin

Teletext or videotext via DVB - full graphics and color

martin

The most personal video recorder on the planet. Now with Cable TV support.

martin

a utility which can be used to record a radio station

martin

GPL MPEG2 encoder

martin

teletext decoder for the the Siemens/Hauppauge DVB-S cards.

martin

See our dietlibc in action

martin

We changed the contact address mpeg2@linuxtv.org to be a mailinglist.

frankro

What's wrong with content protection?

martin

Save PES streams. Dump EPG data. On Disk Editing. Italia. Have Fun!

martin

New version of the Siemens DVB card driver

ralph

The project "diet libc" was launched to empower embedded application programmers on the Linux platform.

felix

announce for updated Kfir-driver

frankro

New version of the Margi/Billionton DVD-to-Go PC-Card driver

marcus

New version of the Siemens DVB card driver

ralph

announce: linux driver for Kfir-based MPEG-2 encoder

frankro

Why buy a Tivo when you can download VDR for free

martin

Linux DVD API, DVD Navigator, Margi, ...

martin

Never again watching boring TV channels

martin

The revolution will be televised

martin

Kvdr - the GUI for the digital video recorder

martin

Multicasting MPEG2 Transport streams

martin

New version of the Siemens DVB card driver

ralph

New version of the digital video recorder

martin

Nokia cooperates with us for the development of Open Source software

martin

PCMCIA DVD decoder card

martin

LinuxTV at IBC

martin

welcome on board of xml

frankro