upgrading v4l-dvb
Submitted by peterbarrow on April 5, 2006 - 6:31pm
I have an avermedia 777 card that I want to add to my setup. I have seen that support has recently been added to the dvb libraries (although prob vv bleeding edge at this stage!)
If I rebuild the dvb libraries using the hg code from v4l-dvb, will my changes be lost when myth-dora is next upgraded?
Well if you have a card that
Well if you have a card that isn't supported, which I think that card should be using 2.1, then yes installing the new dvb code should allow it to work. So if you do get it to work, then why would you want to upgrade? I will say this, I am in the process of making the new 2.2 version which should support everything DVB/v4l related. I'll be using kernel-2.6.16-1.2069 and ivtv-0.6.1 along with other new drivers as well.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
not quite there!
dmesg shows me the saa7134 doesn't quite recognise the card. The latest CVS snapshot of v4l-dvb does not contain the changes for the avermedia 777 card. However the tip code does. (It was added towards the end on January)
I'm fighting with the tarball atm. tar thinks that the version I downloaded is not a gzip file. I don't know if firefoz is doing something strange to the file or what is going on at the moment (I can nar other tar files that I download, so I suspect it is not operator trouble!)
Hmmm, it looks as if the new
Hmmm, it looks as if the new 2.6.16 kernel I'll be coming out with doesn't even support this card yet. It is supported in 2.6.17 but that isn't even out yet. So yeah your best bet would be to compile the latest dvb code. I've had the same problems with untarring as well. I've tried doing tar -zxvf and -xvf. Try downloading the bz2 version and see if that works.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Tar options
The old "z" option to tar that we all know so well doesn't work with a bz2 file. Use a "j" instead.