[mythtv-users] CLE266 and hardware MPEG2 decoding

Derek Anderson public at kered.org
Sat Sep 6 22:23:11 EDT 2003


ah yes...
	"video4linux is the original video capture/overlay API of the
	linux kernel."
[http://bytesex.org/v4l/]



Derek Anderson wrote:
>  > You also need the via v4l kernel module.
> 
> i must not understand fully what v4l does.  i thought it was video 
> capture only, not video capture and playback.  i wasn't even aware that 
> VIA had a v4l driver.  how is this going to play with my ivtv v4l driver?
> 
>  > Wherever you tell it it is.  Somewhere in your link path would
>  > probably be a good place to start.
> 
> /lib worked.  danke.
> 
> 
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:18 pm, Derek Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> i found this reverse-engineering project:
>>>     http://www.ivor.it/cle266/
>>> this makes libddmpeg.so available.
>>
>>
>>
>> You also need the via v4l kernel module.
>>
>>
>>> anyway, adding "-L<path-to-.so-dir>" to settings.pro let me compile
>>> successfully.
>>>
>>> however running mythfrontend caused a complaint about loading
>>> libddmepg.so.  i've tried dropping it in /usr/X11R6/lib and
>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules without luck.
>>>
>>> where is myth expecting to find it?
>>
>>
>>
>> Wherever you tell it it is.  Somewhere in your link path would 
>> probably be a good place to start.
>>
>> Isaac
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