From 9fe4d4ea9c054e539ab679ed2e9c076c35beb69d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: etobi Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:48:45 +0200 Subject: Imported Upstream version 1.1.1+rev1355 --- util/alevt/README | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 util/alevt/README (limited to 'util/alevt/README') diff --git a/util/alevt/README b/util/alevt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83985f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/util/alevt/README @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Hi, + +this software is not just a program, it's moreover a legend. +It is THE protagonist of all videotext applications under Linux. + +During the past 10 years the video standards, the APIs, the kernel +have seen lots of changes. +But unfortunately this program has NOT seen much maintenance. +The results of that misfit appearance are: + +1. lots of forks flying around in the Internet +2. lots of patches flying around, some good, some disgusting, some out of time +3. lots of cruft which is completely outdated or obsolete for other reasons + +To handle all that in one big effort I decided to redesign the program +completely, enlarging its capabilities for DVB-S at the same time. + +So here are the changes: + +1. Erasure of old help pages and rename / reorganize / update the rest +-> redesign of the online help system / implying alevt-date and alevt-cap + +2. Erasure of old outdated integers, functions, parameters: + +- bell, big_buf, debug, display, editor, erc, fine_tune, newbttv, +- oldbttv + +3. Coding style cleanups (no superfluous comments, not more than + 80 characters per column, no uncommented code. + +4. No strange characters in the outfile, latin alphabet in purity instead. + +5. Alevt can be started in 4 modes now if you are running it in DVB mode: + +- by service id (sid) +- by teletext pid (ttpid) +- by channel name +- without parameter + +6. Starting it in DVB mode on the command line it presents you +a table with human readable values such as sid, teletext pid, +PMT (Program Map Table), provider name, service name, language, service type. +This makes it easier for you to start multiple teletext windows +in multiple console sessions manually. + +If working with a script and the option -o (outfile) you can +also start multiple teletext windows of all channels in a transponder. +I develop a GUI using TCL / TK 8.5 and Iwidgets 4.01 to do that and other +tasks graphically (i. e. by mouse click). + +7. If you install the program on the command line by typing "make & + make install" there is an uninstaller now to revert the installation: + "make uninstall". + +ENJOY IT! + +Uwe Bugla, February 11th, 2010. + +External dependencies + +AleVT needs some system libraries to be installed in your system. +They are zlib, libX11, libpng and libzvbi. + +Credits go to: +- Andreas Rottmann from debian.org for compiler fixes and + other kinds of investigation. +- Francesco Lavra for supplying a kernel patch to avoid kernel demux + incompatibilities with kernels >= 2.6.32 +- Andy Walls for helpful investigation in kernelspace +- Edgar Toernig for providing the source version 1.6.2 and doing all the + development for the basic versions +- Tom Zoerner for the implementation of libzvbi -- cgit v1.2.3