[MPlayer-dev-eng] Proposed patch: blindly accept DVB API 5

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 22:56:51 Steven Brudenell wrote:
> As of 2.6.28, the linux kernel headers report DVB API version 5.
> Mplayer has code that checks that the version must be 3.x (x >= 1)
> to use ATSC frontends for DVB adapters.
>
> I checked out the mythtv trunk, and apparently they solved this as
> of 2008-12-06 by just blindly accepting the new API version. I
> couldn't find any other reference in their code to this version
> change, so I guess that was sufficient. I can't find docs about DVB
> API 5 (only version 3 docs seem to exist) to confirm or deny this.
>
> I tried the same simple patch against mplayer trunk, and everything
> about DVB works exactly the same as with the older kernel version.
> I attached the patch.


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