[mythtv-users] MythTV w/Firewire in Ubuntu

[Wylie Swanson]

Adam,

You are missing some prerequisite libraries for FireWire to work.
Specifically, libraw1394, libavc1394 and libiec61883.  Download them at
http://www.linux1394.org/

Best regards

W


On 1/4/06, Adam Propeck <adam at propeck.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a copy of my post to the ubuntu forums, but I was refered here.
> Hope you all can help me.
> -------------------------------------------------------
> I'm trying to get MythTv installed on Breezy Badger with Firewire support.
> I'm using a 6200 STB, and as I've read, this should be easily done. The
> "apt-get install mythtv" packages that are installed as per the excellent
> Ubuntu/MythTV how-to do not have firewire support built in. I tried
> downloading the source for .18.1 of Mythtv, but cannot figure out how to get
> the ./configure to show firewire support YES. I have all the 1394 packages
> installed from source so that they are the newest, etc.
>
> I also tried installing SVN and pulling down the latest Myth packages from
> there. The ./configure works great, and I can set firewire support and
> other options easily. However, When I go to compile this, I get a ton of
> errors. Evidently the required packages aren't installed by default in
> Breezy.
>
> I tried to install them as the errors came up, and apt-get'ed about a
> hundred million packages. I finally get stuck on one that appears to be xvmc
> related even though I've tried the ./configure with and without xvmc
> enabled.
>
> I'm going crazy here. Any thoughts on how I could get this running? Anyone
> have a precompiled version with FW enabled? Anyone have .19 compiled? What
> am I doing wrong? thanks in advance! -Tal
>
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