MythTV on el6: tuner support

[John Pilkington]

On 14/04/13 16:57, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi:  I've been happily using the ATrpms repo for more than 8 years,
>     but it feels like time to test the water over here.
>
>     I have a laptop now running under ScientificLinux 6.4, with kde
>     4.10.2 and Qt 4.8.4 from the kde-unstable repo, and MythTV
>     0.26.0-7.el6 from rpmfusion.  Some parts of the recent installation
>     process weren't planned, but to my surprise the system seems to be
>     working well.
>
>
> I'm glad the package is working for you! I had an issue with CentOS 6 so
> gave up and went back to Fedora, which is a pity  I was really looking
> forward to not having to upgrade my MythTV as frequently.
>
>     One part of the working system is still from Atrpms.  MythTV under
>     the current SL6 kernel doesn't recognise the tuner - a PCTV 290e
>     dvb-t/t2 usb device - so I'm running an earlier kernel with
>     video4linux driver package and kmdl from ATrpms;  the last sync with
>     linuxtv was in Nov 2011.
>
>     In browsing the rpmfusion repo I haven't recognised packages that
>     might provide this functionality.  What am I missing?
>
>
> Nothing really. The problem is that the v4l package in RHEL/CentOS is
> very old, but unlike ATRPMs, RPM Fusion has a policy, like Fedora EPEL,
> of not providing packages that already exist in the upstream (or EPEL)
> repositories. I don't completely understand the relationship between the
> driver, library, and utility packages, but you can reference this BZ bug
> I submitted some time ago for more information. Thus far, RH has
> declined to update the v4l package.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755343
>
> Richard

Thanks, Richard.  That's clear.  I'll explore further and report back if 
I make progress.

John