Recent changes to feature-requests

USB Sound Pass-Through

Andreas Lunderhage — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:32:33 -0000

I have a Pinnacle Hybrid Pro USB device and to get sound for analogue TV, I need to type this command in a terminal as root:
sox -r 48000 -w -c 2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp1 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp

This command takes the sound from /dev/dsp1 (which is the sound device of the USB device, converts it to 48000khz/2 channels and passes it to my sound card, /dev/dsp. How nice shouldn't it be if Zapping had this feature built-in?

Support for ivtv based cards

Anonymous — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:11:40 -0000

Hello I have a pvr-150... and it is really easy to play
the signal through mplayer or vlc... but i have to
change channels through another program like xawtv or
zapping. Would it be very hard to implement
mpeg-playback for those cards?

Add support for more libavcodec formats in capture plugin

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:14:07 -0000

I would especially be interested in support for MJPEG
and huffyuv.

ALSA support

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:07:23 -0000

See topic.

Since more and more tv cards get ALSA support in the
Linux kernel, it would also be cool to have it
supported in zapping.

Remove DGA dependency

iwbcman — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:50:28 -0000

I am not sure how deeply Zapping is dependent on the X
DGA extension. However recent nvidia drivers, the
propietary ones, have dropped support for DGA.
Currently this means that Zapping simply crashes when I
try to execute it with nvidia >=1.8xxx.

According the nvidia README:

" What is NVIDIA's plan for support of the
XFree86-DGA extension?

A. Support for the XFree86-DGA extension will be
removed from the NVIDIA
driver in a future driver release. This means that
while the extension will
continue to be advertised and XDGASelectInput() will
still function
properly so that DGA clients can acquire relative
pointer motion, DGA entry
points such as XDGASetMode() and
XDGAOpenFramebuffer() will fail.

If you would prefer that DGA support not be removed
from the NVIDIA X
driver, please feel free to make your concerns known
on the Linux forum on
nvnews.net."

Now the last thing I want to do is bug free software
developers to change their software to support
propietary drivers- but I find myself in a quandry. I
trully love Zapping-it is the only TV viewing program I
wish to use but at some point I will be forced to stop
using it if I wish to take advantage of better video
support for my nvidia graphics card.

Is it possible to remove the DGA dependency? could it
be made into a command-line option ? Alternately could
the configure script query X for availability of DGA
and optionally build Zapping without DGA dependency ?

I unfortunately do not have any notion as to how deeply
Zapping depends on DGA. If there is a
complicated/involved DGA dependency consider this
feature request void.

Thanks, Karl Zollner

Documentation for use with DVB card

Christian Schuglitsch — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:02:05 -0000

I have mythtv and nxtvepg-2.8.0pre5 running fine with
my DVB-T card. I know how to use tzap and dvbstream too.
The last thing I'm missing is teletext.

Maybe you can add some examples how to use zvbid
together with zapping.
Maybe you can even create a ./configure option to make
zapzilla a stand alone teletext viewer as long as
zapping isn't a dvb-tv-application.

dvb support

Gediminas — Thu, 12 May 2005 09:05:12 -0000

Sorry, but i can't find zapping forum, so I write here
my problem (maybe bug). Have ZAPPING dvb cards support?
Because I try to load Zapping, and I get message that
/dev/video0 not found, but in /dev directory I found
/dev/video1394 so how to change a video0 to video1394?
I don't find any zapping config file.

change channel with scrollwheel

Peter Lundqvist — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:23:10 -0000

It would be nice to be able to 'zapp' between channels
using the scrollwheel on the mouse.

sound amplifier

Peter Lundqvist — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:21:52 -0000

Many tv-providers suck at adjusting the sound level for
all channels.
It would be nice to be able to amplify some channels.

What I'm requesting is in short some way to amplify the
sound on a per channel basis while zapping remembers
the setting for each channel.

Also - a main sound-level control for zapping (only -
not coupled with the system sound) would be nice.

Separate Zapping

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:26:36 -0000

In the latest Zapping version Zapzilla seems to be totally
integrated, so its not possible to launch it as a standalone
application. Thats bad because Zapzilla is the best Teletext
browser out there :). It should be possible to use Zapzilla without
Zapping.