[MPlayer-users] enable dvb support

[Nico Sabbi]

Jon Evans wrote:

>I'm working with a Slackware 10.2 install,  Backtrack cd.
>  
>

don't top post,  please

>I have the kernel source 2.6.15.6,  and yes the drivers are installed
>for my device.   I had to manually create the /etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh
>to create the necessary character devices.   I know the system is
>working cause I have kaffine working with my DVB USB stick without any
>problems.   When I tried the default mplayer install on this distro I
>got an error,  e.g. using mplayer dvb://channel produced something like
>no file found.   I assumed that it wasn't compiled correctly for dvb so
>removed it to compile support for dvb using the source code.
>
>The mplayer documents refer to the linuxtv utils,  and I believe it is
>those headers that the Makefile is trying to use.
>
>Here are the files:-
>slax dvb # pwd
>/root/DVB/include/linux/dvb
>slax dvb # ls -l
>total 52
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 4605 Jan 17  2004 audio.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 3150 Jan 17  2004 ca.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 4227 Jan 17  2004 dmx.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 7193 May 17 23:32 frontend.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 1265 Jan 17  2004 net.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 4247 Jan 17  2004 osd.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users  985 Jan 17  2004 version.h
>-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 6660 Jan 17  2004 video.h
>  
>

you have the headers in

/root/DVB/include/linux/dvb 

intead of /usr/include/linux/dvb; if you want to keep them here re-configure with --with-extraincdir=/root/DVB/include/