[mythtv-users] 0.25 and V4L not working

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Mar 22 06:19:32 UTC 2012


On 03/22/2012 12:31 AM, Eric B wrote:
>> What distro? Where did you get MythTV (from a package or
>> built-from-source)?
> I am running ubuntu 10.04, kernel 2.6.32-39 generic and was using the
> packages for the mythbuntu repo
>
>> What MythTV version (output of mythbackend --version)?
> sorry I forgot to do this before I uninstalled to build from source,  it
> was 0.25.beta....something...
>
>> What did you use for configure options? What is the output of:
>> find /usr/include -name '*videodev*'
> /usr/include/linux/videodev.h
> /usr/include/linux/videodev2.h

Hmmm, that means the patch is unlikely to do anything--though it also 
means that your V4L-based device should work fine.  What capture 
device?  Is it an ivtv-based device?

> I've applied your patch and am going to try and build of source tonight...
> hopefully I will be able to give you results after works tomorrow.
>
> I used
> git clone git://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git
> git clone git://github.com/MythTV/mythweb.git*
> to get the myth code
> *
> used
> ./configure --enable-vdpau --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac
> --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nonfree

Not a bad configure line, but might want to also use --enable-proc-opt

Mike



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