TV support

[rkimber at ntlworld.com]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:57:18 -0800
Nathan Howell <nathan at crapbox.org> wrote:

> That's about all I did, and it's working great with mythtv. I may get
> around to packaging it myself, since I've been wanting to learn debian
> packaging anyway, but I don't know when I'll get a chance. I also 
> don't
> know what issues there are with that firmware and packaging it 
> legally.

Thanks, but isn't it mythtv that's the problem?  I've tried on other 
distrib. and run into endless dependency issues and I was told you have 
to recompile qt, etc.  Also, I've run into device problems, etc, but I 
assume a deb package could set up all the correct devices and 
permissions.

Actually, a package with everything but the firmware would be great, but
is that possible? (So long as the firmware extraction program is present
 that's not a problem).  But I thought that ivtv had to be compiled with
 the specific kernel headers  and  source in place.  But I know less 
about these  things  than you  do.  And I never got any of it to 
compile on an amd64 with either 32bit or 64bit system.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/