Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > --- Em sáb, 2/2/13, Randy McMurchy escreveu: > >> De: Randy McMurchy >> Assunto: Re: [blfs-support] VLC and Video4Linux (was: [blfs-book] r10987 ...) >> Para: "BLFS Support List" >> Data: Sábado, 2 de Fevereiro de 2013, 22:52 >> Fernando de Oliveira wrote these >> words on 02/02/13 11:10 CST: >>> Forgot to say that I used the new instructions >> including the patch, to >>> install VLC. >>> I could not find in the page an explanation for the >> necessity of the >>> patch, but do not remember if there are explanations >> for other patches. >> >> There are ?tens/hundreds? of patches in BLFS and none of >> them have any explanation >> in the book as the explanation is in the header of the >> patch. Patches are text >> files that should have the explanation you are looking for >> embedded in the patch. > Yes, you are right. > >> As far as your previous message goes, I do not really >> understand what you are >> asking. Video4Linux is a dependency of many other packages >> in BLFS. What exactly >> is your point? >> >> -- >> Randy > Three points. > > 1. Why is v4l-utils required dependency for VLC in LFS-6.5? > > 2. Should ivtv-ctl, from v4l-utils, be removed? In ArchLinux it is > removed. > > 3. Thank who included v4l-utils as dependency. > > []s, > Fernando libv4l2 is required by vlc access plugin libv4l2_plugin.so. It allows vlc to capture /dev/video0.
v4l-utils provides libv4l1 libv4l2 and tools. I don't know why to remove ivtv.ctl and not other tools ? Pierre -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
