cvidix driver for PVR350 ("ivtv") missing

[Martin Dauskardt]

Binary package hint: mplayer

mplayer has three ivtv-related output drivers:

1. ivtv
This one is for using the hardware decoder (/dev/video16) of the PVR350 card and works only with older ivtv drivers. Since 2.6.22 ivtv is in the kernel and this driver is obsolete. Ubuntu has disabled this driver, because it cannot be built with recent kernels

2. v4l2
This is for for using the hardware decoder of the PVR350 card with kernel >= 2.6.22

3. cvidix:ivtv
This is a totally different output driver and has nothing to do with the first one, except it is also namend "ivtv". The cvidix subdriver "ivtv" uses the YUV device (/dev/video48) of the PVR350, similar to a graphics card.
Unfortunately the mplayer configure script checks for a wrong dependency:

  test "$_vidix_drivers" || _vidix_drivers="cyberblade ivtv mach64 mga mga_crtc2 nvidia pm2 pm3 radeon rage128 s3 sh_veu sis unichrome"
  test $_ivtv = "yes" || _vidix_drivers=`echo $_vidix_drivers | sed s/ivtv//`

The second check means that in case the first driver ("ivtv") is disabled, the cvidix ivtv subdriver will also be removed from the list of drivers. This is wrong!

Please rebuild the mplayer package with uncommenting the second check:

  test "$_vidix_drivers" || _vidix_drivers="cyberblade ivtv mach64 mga mga_crtc2 nvidia pm2 pm3 radeon rage128 s3 sh_veu sis unichrome"
  #test $_ivtv = "yes" || _vidix_drivers=`echo $_vidix_drivers | sed s/ivtv//`

I will also post this to the mplayer mailing list.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Martin Dauskardt <email address hidden> writes:

> I will also post this to the mplayer mailing list.

please attach a link to the mailing list archive to this bug, so that we
can track the discussion made upstream.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Martin Dauskardt (md001)]

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-June/077194.html

[Martin Dauskardt (md001)]

Unfortunately no mplayer developer seems to read the mplayer-users list. While I am waiting for approval by the mplayer-devel moderator, I made a Bugzilla entry: http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1509

[Martin Dauskardt (md001)]

The big has finally been fixed:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-July/061870.html

Would be nice if the Ubuntu mplayer maintainers could build a new package, with should now automatically include the ivtv cvidix driver