video4linux on Redhat

[maitre at ccs.neu.edu (Brad Noyes)]

Hi,
I've never used nVidia's video catpture, but ih ave used another card's video
capture. These pages might help you.
http://bytesex.org/bttv/       <- bttv is the driver needed
http://bytesex.org/v4l/        <- v4l is the API
http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/  <- v4l2 is the second generation API

The drived needed are kernel level, so you will likely need the kernel source.
Though i think RedHat compiles like every kernel module possible.

Go through these web pages, and the documents/links. See what you can do.
Sometimes getting the bttv stuff to work can be hard.

--brad

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:35:16PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> I'm trying to get my nVideo video card w/capture to capture. I've tracked
> down that I need video4linux, but I'm stumped as to where to go next. I
> have RedHat 7.2 fresh install.
> 
> I downloaded the video4linux2 stuff from thedirks.com/v4l2, but the make
> just is broken, complaining of missing /usr/src/linux (there's a
> /usr/src/redhat). Do I need to install all the kernel sources?
> 
> I also downloaded the rivaTV driver, which purports to support my card, but
> again the make fails. This time with a complaint that the header file
> modversions.h shouldn't be included from /usr/include, but rather from a
> kernel specific place, which also doesn't exist.
> 
> The page most things send you to:
> 
> http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
> 
> is not available.
> 
> 
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