VTQLserver 0.91 review
DownloadThe VTQLserver package contains a server and clients for videotext access for Linux
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The VTQLserver package contains a server and clients for videotext access for Linux. The server stores the pages of several TV-stations for parallel reading and searching.
You can run many clients in parallel i.e. search all videotext pages, and view them. The only limit is, that the server does not scale well and is not as stable as you may expect it for running it on a server machine. It is intended to be used on workstations, since I do not think, servers have TV cards nor do I have a server machine.
Requirements:
VTQLserver should run on any UNIX system, but the video/vbi access is only possible for certian Linux kernels and certian video chips. I'll try to use the more portable libzvbi one day, but there are still enough problems outside the video/vbi interface to solve. Anyway, on a everyday system with a standart Linux distribution on a ix86/alpha/mac it should work fine and the requierments below should be satisfied.
What's New in This Release:
VTQLserv_start is now vts_start
config socket has no defaults
removed some strange behaviour at VTQLclient
SysV script is now seperate and _calls_ VTQLserv_start
text search is now case sensitive
documentation updates
added manpages
major redesign of libvtql
libvtql uses disk database to get the page data.
major code cleanup
better error handling and signal safty
text search is no longer in server
all page data is now mapped on disk.
removed unnecessary fork in VTQLclient
improved user inerface at console_vt
mode insert is no longer needed (INSERT is now a admin command)
using now filters, instead of "page match"
disabled LINE events (who would ever have used this feature)
changed to new event output
"show freq" is now "freq show"
better support of default values in VTQLserver
upate to xawtv-3.81 freqtab
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