[mythtv-users] RH9 Nehemiah w/ PVR-250 FE&BE distribution

[Zagaroth]

i would be keen as.... will it matter that i hav one of the old Ez chips?
aside from that if u can get the hardwere decoding + encoding working i
would be very happy.....

> I would absolutely be interested in your distro. Even if I finally have
> an installation running well on my m10K nehemia, I've never managed to
> get the VeXP(or any  other player) working to play dvd's and I'm sure
> there a number of other things I just haven't figured out yet...
> Just the thought of having to go through this again, if my HD crashed
> makes me VERY eager to use your distro.
> rgds
> anders
>
> On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 05:22 PM, Jamison Wilde wrote:
>
> > I *almost* have my setup working, with M10000 &
> > PVR-250.  I was wondering if anyone would be
> > interested in it if I put together a binary
> > distribution. Since we have identical hardware, and
> > getting it setup isn't easy, it would make some sense
> > to me.
> >
> > What it would include:
> > * All necessary patches applied to kernel, including
> > v4l2, lirc_dev, etc. so that devfs is not
> > needed(causes problems with RH9).
> > * Fully setup via/via_v4l_drv drivers.
> > * Fully set up ivtv PVR-250 including lirc, with all
> > modules auto loading.
> > * Working version of MythTV w/ compression, starting
> > as a service.
> > * Alsa-Sound w/ SPDIF outputs available.
> > * Working VeXP with libDVDcss
> >
> > What would need to be done:
> > * Running myth setup to set the proper zipcode/cable
> > info, mp3 dirs etc..
> > * Add in external changer stuff.
> > * mount any external file servers.
> >
> > So far what I've needed to do to get this far:
> > * change lirc_dev.c in lirc-cvs to not use DEVFS.
> > * delete /dev/lirc and mknod a new one for grey
> > remote.
> > * Apply the bytesex.org V4l patches to kernel. Also,
> > some patches were rejected, so had to hand apply them.
> > * Rebuild kernel, removing 'custom' from Makefile.
> > * For SPDIF output, had to unmute IE958(?) and set
> > IE958P to zero.
> > * Had to fiddle around with libdvdcss to get it to
> > decrypt DVD's in VeXP.
> >
> > I'm still having some issues with getting ivtv and via
> > v4l to play nice together, but hopefully I will fix
> > them this weekend.
> >
> > Since it would be large (hundreds of megs) I would
> > need to figure out how to distrib. CD's or newsgroups
> > come to mind...
> >
> > Let me know if anyone would be interested.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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