[mythtv-users] ivtv problems

[Craig Longman]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>The drivers are alpha quality, the support code in mythtv is a couple weeks 
>old.  Don't expect things to magically work if you've got little to no linux 
>experience.
>  
>
i have ~7 years linux experience, the last 5 years or so i have 
exclusively used linux, only recently have i needed to get a win2k 
machine again for doing some marquee driver/server development for my 
'day job'.  but i try and keep my linux machines running reasonably 
stable, so tend to not have the latest and greatest patches from every 
which place lying around.  i think my problems might be because there is 
actually some kernel changes required to get the v4l2 working, i'm in 
the process of recompiling 2.4.20 and having the v4l2 patches in place 
to see if that helps.  except there doesn't appear to be a proper patch 
file for the v4l2 stuff i've found.  gonna keep trying, reading, fixing 
and trying again.  however, when docs say 'just copy the videodev2.h 
from the kernel source' and that file doesn't exist, it kinda 
frustrating.  maybe the debian kernel package in stable (2.4.18) is too 
old to have this stuff in it, i don't know.

i'm hopeful when this is all said and done i can actually start 
contributing some code, i had started on a project like this a while 
ago, but life got in the way for a while, and with the leaps and bounds 
this project has shown over the last while, it's smarter to just jump in 
here.

thanks,

     CraigL->Thx();