v4l-dvb-experimental and v4l-dvb-makomk are dying
Edit: I’ve now backported the neccesary changes to v4l-dvb-makomk in order to make it compile on 2.6.24 (it was actually easier than I expected).
In case you haven’t noticed, both Markus’ v4l-dvb-experimental and my v4l-dvb-makomk are slowly dying. (v4l-dvb-experimental can be coerced to compile on modern kernels, but is old and unsupported; v4l-dvb-makomk is worse, since it doesn’t even compile on 2.6.24). So what should you use?
- For non-em28xx based devices that use the xc3028 tuner, try http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/ - support for that tuner and probably most of these devices has been added to here. If there’s anything of this sort that v4l-dvb-experimental supports and v4l-dvb doesn’t, it should be easy to add, and there may even be another tree at http://linuxtv.org/ that does support it (e.g. http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/cx88-xc2028/). Try asking on the appropriate mailing list. (v4l-dvb-makomk never supported any of these devices, so if you’re reading this you probably don’t have one.)
- For em28xx-based devices (what v4l-dvb-makomk supported), you have a choice:
- If you only want analog, your device may be supported by http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/. You can find a list of supported devices here, though other hardware may work with some small changes.
- You can carry on using v4l-dvb-makomk, though I can’t make any guarantees about what’ll happen when 2.6.25 is released. It should now work on 2.6.24 if it did on earlier versions, which for most hardware was the case.
- If you want digital, Markus’ userspace code may be your best or even only option. You should be able to find installation instructions somewhere, though I’m not sure there’s anything official
- Finally, some hardware may require you resorting to v4l-dvb-experimental, though this is in a pretty bad state and getting worse.
Tags: em28xx
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
i really wish you would update your tree to work with 2.6.24.
i do not want to use markus’s userspace stuff.