[mythtv-users] CLEXF40030

[rwk at americom.com]

> > Regarding the PVR-250 MPEG decoder and mythtv...
> >
> > I noticed that Release 1.2 of the source code for the VIA CLE266 mpeg
> > library was released sometime in September.  It says:
> >
> >     "Release 1.2 available. Now up to date with CLEXF40030 driver.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if this means that it will now work with mythtv?
> > (I understood from previous discussions that it was not compatible with
> > XFree86 drivers and kernel drivers.)
> 
> It's always worked with mythtv, if you were using the rest of via's binary 
> driver.  The libddmpeg library is just a tiny little wrapper that needs to 
> talk to the kernel modules to do anything useful.

The last time I tried to get this working I was unsuccessful and I
concluded that it was because I was not running the stock Redhat kernel
that came with RH9.  What I was trying to ask is if the source code
version of libddmpeg mentioned above made it possible with a non-stock
kernel (namely 2.4.21).

If not, can you (or anyone) explain the anticipated steps which are
needed to get to the point where the PVR-250 decoder can be used with an
arbitrary release of Linux?

Thanks for your reply Isaac!

Dick