Public CVS and Mercurial Access
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Access V4L-DVB via web browser

The V4L/DVB repository is available at http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

The dvb-apps repository is available at http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps

Individual developer repositories are available at http://linuxtv.org/hg

Follow this procedure to download a tarball containing the latest sources via the web interface:

1. Open http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb in your favorite browser.
2. Click on the "tags" link, to display a list of the current tags
3. Click on the "tree" link on the topmost line, "tip"
4. A source tree will be shown. You will see links for "gz" and "bz2". Click on one of these to download a tarball containing the latest revision.

To download a tarball containing older sources via the web interface:

1. Browse through the Changelog for the last wanted changeset, and click on it.
2. Details for the changeset will be shown. You will see links for "gz" and "bz2". Click on one of these to download a tarball.

Checkout V4L-DVB or dvb-apps

As of 2006-01-30, V4L and DVB kernel modules are available via Mercurial.

To acquire the latest sources, you must first have mercurial installed*.
Some Linux distributions already include it. If yours doesn't, you can download a binary package or retrieve the source.

To retrieve the v4l-dvb source tree:

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

To update the sources later on:

cd v4l-dvb
hg pull -u http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

To retrieve the dvb-apps source tree:

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps

*requires python-2.3 or later.

How to build the v4l-dvb kernel modules

1. Change into the v4l-dvb directory:
   

   cd v4l-dvb

2. Build the modules:
   

   make

3. Install the modules:
   

   make install

4. If you get errors in relation to unresolved symbols, please try to reboot before filing an error report.

• To clean the source tree:
  

  make clean

• To clean the build configuration:
  

  make distclean

• To remove (rmmod) all modules at once from the running kernel (in memory):
  

  make unload

• To insert (insmod) all modules at once into the running kernel, without the need to install them:
  

  make load

• To perform the two commands above in a single step:
  

  make reload

Browse the CVS Repository Online

You can browse the files in the CVS repository with viewcvs. You can also download on-the-fly generated tarballs, but please use this feature sparingly as it puts a high load on the machine. If you find yourself downloading the newest sources regularly you should consider using anon-cvs access, as described above.

To browse the video4linux CVS select the "v4l" tree in the upper right of the viewcvs page, or use the link below.

viewcvs DVB

viewcvs video4linux

Checkout old v4l-dvb CVS tree

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/video4linux login
(use an empty password)

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/video4linux co -P v4l-dvb

Checkout old dvb-kernel CVS tree

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv login
(use an empty password)

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co -P dvb-kernel

If you want to check out the current drivers for the 2.4 kernel:
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co -P -rlinux_2_4 dvb-kernel

Checkout old dvb-apps or other DVB CVS modules

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv login
(use an empty password)

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co -P dvb-apps
(Replace "dvb-apps" with the name of any other module that you want to retrieve. Look in viewcvs to see which modules exist)

Checkout old video4linux CVS tree