Re: Newbie video editing question

[Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>]

On 11/30/10 01:03, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
>
> firmware-ivtv: /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw

~$ apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
bash: apt-file: command not found

~$ apt-cache search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
firmware-ivtv - Binary firmware for iTVC15-family MPEG codecs (ivtv and 
pvrusb2 drivers)


> Then a:
>
> aptitude search ivtv

> ~$ aptitude search ivtv
p   firmware-ivtv                                  - Binary firmware for 
iTVC15-family MPEG codecs (ivtv and
p   ivtv-source                                    - source for ivtv 
drivers (1.0.x branch)
p   ivtv-utils                                     - utilities for use 
with the ivtv kernel driver
p   libvideo-ivtv-perl                             - Perl extension for 
using V4l2 in the ivtv perl scripts
p   xserver-xorg-video-ivtv                        - X.Org X server -- 
IVTV display driver
p   xserver-xorg-video-ivtv-dbg                    - X.Org X server -- 
IVTV display driver (debug symbols)


~$ ls /lib/firmware
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr  5  2010 av7110
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr  5  2010 cis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr  5  2010 dsp56k
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr  5  2010 keyspan_pda



> should put you on the right track.


I assume that I should install firmware-ivtv.  What about ivtv-tools? 
Does it have anything necessary?  Useful?


Marc