[mpeg2] Re: Problems with Kfir drivers and newer kernels

["Kyler B. Laird" <laird@ecn.purdue.edu>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:27:04 -0600 you wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I was curious to see if anyone has had any troubles with the kfir drivers
>and new kernels (say 2.4.3 and newer?).  I had it working OK with 2.4.1, but
>now on 2.4.7 and 2.4.9 the videodev object shipped with the kfir is quite
>different than the kernel one. I just opted to use the kernel one instead
>and modifed kfir.c to pass an extra argument that was required for a
>register video device call.

Yup, that's what I did.

>With this setup, I am able to play back the first MPEG that I capture.  If I
>ctrl-c and capture another one, the capture seems to work, but the resulting
>MPEG2 is all garbled / blocky and usually crashes my mpeg2 decoder.  If
>anyone has seen this or has any suggestions, they would be greatly
>appreciated.

I rmmod/insmod kfir every time I want to make
a capture.  That seems to alleviate the problem.

--kyler