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

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Kai Thost wrote:
> hi jean-paul,
> 
> you mean with the new kernel-drivers vls will do?
> i am in contact with hard zatschler from the uk.
> he has experienced (as i did with some version do the DVB-module)
> a simple shutdown after starting vls.
> will this be fixed with the kernel-dvb?
> 
Looks like a bug in the driver. Ask Markus Metzler about the problem he 
is the author of the driver.

I have not used the kernel-DVB driver for v4l2 api together with the 
latest vls CVS, so I can not really tell what my experience with it is. 
At work we are going to test this in the near future. Actually when I 
can spare some time for it ;-)

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

> kai
> 
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> Von: vls-devel-bounce at videolan.org
> [mailto:vls-devel-bounce at videolan.org]Im Auftrag von Jean-Paul Saman
> Gesendet: Montag, 10. Februar 2003 20:58
> An: vls-devel at videolan.org
> Betreff: [vls-devel] Re: latest vls won't work with DVB 0.9.4 on kernel
> 2.4.20 anymore?
> 
> 
> 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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