[vlc] Re: Fwd: em28xx driver

Dan Lawson lists at langnet.com
Tue Oct 10 21:27:30 CEST 2006


Thank you for the quick response.  Is there a way to get VLC to use 
ioctl() instead of mmap without changing the source?

Thanks,
Dan Lawson

Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> Dan Lawson wrote:
>> Is there any way to get vlc to work with the em28xx driver under 
>> linux? The error received is this:
>>
>> v4l demuxer error: mmap unsupported
>>
>> I know this is a v4l/v4l2 compatibility issue, but is there any way 
>> to get around it?
>>
> I never used the driver, but the error messages says that the driver 
> doesn't support mmap() syscall. So you need other methods ioctl() for 
> instance to tell the driver what to do.
>
> Gtz,
> Jean-Paul Saman.
>

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