Hi folks,
I'm installing MythTV on a slower system with a PVR 250. I did a new install
of RedHat 9.0, went through the demo RHN updates to get to kernel version
2.4.20-18.9 and accompanying source. Then went thru making and installing
lame, used apt-get to install mplayer, xmltv, and mythtv. After a lot of
fumbling, I got the ivtv driver built and working (as proven with the cat
/dev/video0 > test.mpg; test). This was progress, but the PVR 250 didn't
list any inputs. Being a good little geek, I found a thread on it and went
to work.
Now I'm still stuck quite solidly on the common-ish issue of mythtv not
knowing how to list inputs for the PVR 250. The suggestion from the admin in
a thread was that mythtv needed to be recompiled with a v4l2 workaround. If
I read it correctly, he said to:
cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/include/linux/videodev.h
/usr/include/videodev.h
cp /root/ivtv/ivtv/driver/videodev2.h /usr/include/videodev2.h
(rebuild ivtv, mythtv 0.8)
...with recomendations to comment out the include of a kernel time header
and a mention to make a change to the videodev.h file around a "#define
HAVE_V4L2 ". The version of videodev.h that comes with RedHat9 doesn't seem
to have this line. Do I need to install V4L2 to get this working? Anything
else you can see? I'm looking for semi-specific commands I can run - the
generic descriptions in the existing threads aren't working.
daveb
I'm installing MythTV on a slower system with a PVR 250. I did a new install
of RedHat 9.0, went through the demo RHN updates to get to kernel version
2.4.20-18.9 and accompanying source. Then went thru making and installing
lame, used apt-get to install mplayer, xmltv, and mythtv. After a lot of
fumbling, I got the ivtv driver built and working (as proven with the cat
/dev/video0 > test.mpg; test). This was progress, but the PVR 250 didn't
list any inputs. Being a good little geek, I found a thread on it and went
to work.
Now I'm still stuck quite solidly on the common-ish issue of mythtv not
knowing how to list inputs for the PVR 250. The suggestion from the admin in
a thread was that mythtv needed to be recompiled with a v4l2 workaround. If
I read it correctly, he said to:
cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/include/linux/videodev.h
/usr/include/videodev.h
cp /root/ivtv/ivtv/driver/videodev2.h /usr/include/videodev2.h
(rebuild ivtv, mythtv 0.8)
...with recomendations to comment out the include of a kernel time header
and a mention to make a change to the videodev.h file around a "#define
HAVE_V4L2 ". The version of videodev.h that comes with RedHat9 doesn't seem
to have this line. Do I need to install V4L2 to get this working? Anything
else you can see? I'm looking for semi-specific commands I can run - the
generic descriptions in the existing threads aren't working.
daveb