[mythtv-users] DVB suppport in 2.4 and ATrpms

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Mon Jul 12 21:06:57 EDT 2004


On Monday 12 July 2004 17:18, MythTV wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 01:36, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 12 July 2004 15:57, Berry, David wrote:
> > > I was thinking of building my new mythtv backend box with FC2 - but
> > > everyone seems to be saying to stick with FC1.
> >
> > Stick with FC1.
> >
> > > The reason I was looking at FC2 was I understood that the 2.6 kernel
> > > has support for DVB built in (I have two DVB cards) - if I use FC1 and
> > > ATrpms - does that kernel include DVB support?
> >
> > Yep, Axel builds DVB kernel modules for FC1 also.
> >
> > http://atrpms.net/dist/fc1/linux-dvb/
> >
> > > When I install mythTV from ATrpms - will I need to recompile it to
> > > include DVB support within Myth ?
> >
> > Not certain... I don't think support is included by default, but the
> > necessary switches are in the spec file. Anyone else know what's
> > necessary?
>
> What is currently the problem of using FC2 ?

I didn't say there was a problem with FC2, I said that FC1 was a better choice 
at the moment. FC2 just isn't as well supported, documented, etc., as FC1. 
However, one of the major hurdles was the nvidia driver, which has since been 
remedied, and the other one, the ivtv driver (still awaiting an 
FC2-stock-kernel-clean release), doesn't impact DVB. So I guess using FC2 
isn't such a big deal for DVB, but it likely won't be as smooth a setup as 
FC1.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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