[vls-devel] Re: latest vls won't work with DVB 0.9.4 on kernel 2.4.20 anymore?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Kai Thost wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i have just checked out the latest cvs out of the CVS tree.
> the Changelog says that 0.5.0 contains support for the
> new dvb-kernel-drivers. configure shows up version 0.4.5.
> 
> the former version (mid of january) worked ok with video
> streaming but no sound. so i tried this new one.
> 
> i haven't changed anything about the vls.cfg.
> now after getting the info from .dvbrc he simply stops
> the manager und exits.
> 
> do i have to use the dvb-kernel-drivers? are the DVB 0.9.4 supported?
> 
> kai
> 

Correct it uses v4l2 api and this is not part of the standard 2.4.20 
linux kernel from kernel.org. The standar linux kernel uses the *old* 
v4l interface.

The development kernel 2.5.x uses the *new* v4l2 api that now supports 
DVB cards, webcams, encoding cards,etc. properly. So you have two choices:

1) patch linux kernel 2.4.20 with the apropriated v4l2 patches, so you 
can get the kernel-dvb CVS branch from linuxtv.org. Or:

2) Use a development kernel (in feature freeze AFAIK) with kernel-dvb 
and v4l2 already in there. Of course every development kernel is always 
a bit *experimental* so your mileage may very ;-)


Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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