MythTV for EL-6 discussion

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> I think the biggest roadblock at this point is "v4l" where the RHEL
>>> version is quite old, however, Hans[1] is trying to appeal to the RHEL
>>> QA gods to see if he can convince them.
>> 
>> Hm. There's newer v4l-utils in EPEL... But no libv4l. Looks like its been packaged to
>> have a private libv4l copy or some such thing. Was thinking that could be used, but
>> maybe not.
> 
> We may be able to, I just having figured out how to yet. When I try to
> use that version the transcode build fails because of missing headers
> which the new package does not provide. If someone knows a way around
> that then we may be back in business.
> 
> Or do we just build transcode without v4l support?

For mythtv, I don't think its critical. The transcode bits are only used optionally, and
they operate on already-recorded files, not directly on v4l devices. So you could
just build without v4l support and not miss out on much of anything, as far as mythtv
is concerned.

-j