git build, videodev.h and gst-plugins-base video4linux plugin

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 21:15 +0300, Oleksandr Lavrushchenko wrote:

Hi,

> I need v4l2src element, but configuration step failed:
> (...)
> configure:27263: *** checking feature: Video 4 Linux ***
> configure:27267: *** for plug-ins: video4linux ***
> conftest.c:77:28: fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory
> So configure want to get /usr/include/linux/videodev.h
> But according to (snip) this file was removed.
> 
> Which is the best workaround for this? Just put this file for build
> time from older kernel? Or there are some "clean" ways?

The v4l2src element lives in gst-plugins-good, the v4l plugin in -base
is the old deprecated API.

 Cheers
  -Tim