HD Capture Cards on Linux

2014-12-08 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, In my apparently eternal quest for a decent HD capture card with support for v4l2 I couldn't find an existing table of cards, I've put one up the Wiki. I hope I've done it correctly, these tables are horrible to maintain. Anyhow if people would like to look at it, I'd be grateful

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2014-11-18 Thread Steve Cookson
While trying to debug a particularly recalcitrant segfault on entering GStreamer, I found all this on dmesg. I don't know if it is connected, but I haven't seen it before. I'm using a Dazzle DVC 100 Rev 1.1. I get it across several different platforms (this is an Asus Zen laptop). The

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2014-11-17 Thread Steve Cookson
While trying to debug a particularly recalcitrant segfault on entering GStreamer, I found all this on dmesg. I don't know if it is connected, but I haven't seen it before. I'm using a Dazzle DVC 100 Rev 1.1. I get it across several different platforms (this is an Asus Zen laptop). The

Re: Comparisons of images between Dazzle DVC100, EasyCap stk1160 and Hauppauge ImapctVCB-e in Linux.

2014-04-25 Thread Steve Cookson
it at all? Otherwise I should just focus on EasyCap for my raw SD capture and move on. Thanks, Steve On 23/04/14 16:22, Steve Cookson wrote: Hi Guys, I would be interested in your views of the comparisons of these images. The still is the image of a duodenum taken during an endoscopy

Comparisons of images between Dazzle DVC100, EasyCap stk1160 and Hauppauge ImapctVCB-e in Linux.

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I would be interested in your views of the comparisons of these images. The still is the image of a duodenum taken during an endoscopy and recorded to a DVD player (via an s-video or composite cable). Although the endoscope is an HD endoscope, the DVD recorder isn't and the

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/04/14 19:15, Steve Cookson wrote: For no good reason AFAICT the initial resolution is set to 320x240. But you can just set it to 640x480 (or more likely, 720x480 for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL): v4l2-ctl -v width=640,height=480 Hi Guys, The attachments here are sent using tinypic.com

Re: [PATCH] cx23885: add support for Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I've been playing around with this on my Kubuntu 13.10. Apart from the issue that you know I have of the altera-stapl.ko file arriving in the wrong directory, I think it's a good basis for moving forwards. What is the process for including this in the Linux TV baseline? I feel

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Hans, Thanks for this. On 16/04/14 10:58, Hans Verkuil wrote: find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/|grep altera If you have duplicate altera-stapl.ko files, then that might explain it. In that case remove the older module. There are indeed duplicates. I removed the older one and dmesg went

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, On 16/04/14 14:20, Hans Verkuil wrote: However looking at the tree structure I have to say I don't understand it. Firstly there seem to be two equivalent branches in /lib/modules/: 1) drivers/linux/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/ and 2) drivers/misc/altera-stapl/ Before

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, On 14/04/14 15:02, Hans Verkuil wrote: I'd appreciate it if you can test this with a proper video feed. Ok, here is the first issue: 1) I have a 640x480 video feed which displays appropriately through stk1160, but only displays at 320x240 in ImpactVCBe. In fact this is the same

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
. The stk1160 s-video at 640x480 is much better than the ImpactVCB-e on either composite or s-video. Regards Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 04/16/2014 07:11 PM, Steve Cookson wrote: Hi Guys, On 14/04/14 15:02, Hans Verkuil wrote: I'd appreciate it if you can test

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, On 14/04/14 15:02, Hans Verkuil wrote: I'd appreciate it if you can test this with a proper video feed. Well, I've been installing the patch today. I finished the compilation script and the card is not detected. Here's what I did: It's been a bit hard-going because my ISP has

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson
On 15/04/14 18:13, Hans Verkuil wrote: Somewhat strange error message. Does 'dmesg' give you any useful info? I get this: image@image-H61M-DS2:~$ dmesg | grep -i cx23885 [ 13.237914] cx23885: disagrees about version of symbol altera_init [ 13.237917] cx23885: Unknown symbol altera_init

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson
On 15/04/14 19:44, Steve Cookson wrote: [ 13.237914] cx23885: disagrees about version of symbol altera_init [ 13.237917] cx23885: Unknown symbol altera_init (err -22) Is it a regression issue? https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media/issues/2#issuecomment-23365778 I'm on 3.11.0-18. Regards

List objectives and interests.

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi People, Could I, please, I clarify what the purposes of this list are? I am developing a system to collect medical raw video based on Linux. I have tested a number of SD and HD adaptors for this project some of which have worked to a greater or lesser extent. Is this the right place for

Re: List objectives and interests.

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, Thanks for your reply. On 11/04/14 08:50, Hans Verkuil wrote: HD is well supported for embedded systems What does embedded systems mean, you mean like the decklink proprietary software? Regards Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
So I'm back to the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385. Apparently it's fully supported by the current Linux kernel: Model Standard Interface Supported Comments ImpactVCB-e Video PCIe ✔ Yes No tuners, only video-in. S-Video Capture works with

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, Thanks for this, I'll do as you suggested. On 11/04/14 10:45, Hans Verkuil wrote: I have serious doubts whether this is actually supported. I see no mention of that board in the cx23885 driver. I wonder if there is a mixup between the ImpactVCB (which IS supported) and the

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, On 11/04/14 11:35, Hans Verkuil wrote: Actually, I would recommend that you try playing with the 'card=' option to see if you can get something that works. I suspect that adding support for this card isn't hard. Well I did try the card= option before and it worked in a way. The

Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Guys, Sorry to go on about the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385, but it's a couple of years and version 12.04, since I last asked. This page: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge Now shows: Table of analog-only devices sold by Hauppauge Model Standard Interface Supported Comments

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Cookson
The issue is nobody cares enough to update the driver to support your card and make it work out of the box. Hi Steve, Thanks for your response. Well not nobody because I do. How do I do it? If you would guide me through, I will happily update it. Regards Steve. Steven Toth

What are Other video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi All, Occasionally I see emails suggesting that a video capture card has not been configured properly on Linux and that the problems the questioner is experiencing is down to this. I have no idea what this means. I usually use a gstreamer command like: gst-launch v4l2src

Re: What are Other video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Cookson
On 26/09/2013 08:32, Hans Verkuil wrote: Typically the video standard needs to be correct (e.g. PAL vs NTSC), and the video format produced by the video capture card must be supported by the application. Ask them to run 'v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --all', that gives a good overview of the

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/09/2013 19:09, Devin Heitmueller wrote: To be clear, this card is a *raw* capture card. It does not have any hardware compression for H.264. It's done entirely in software. Ok, well I misunderstood that. And, in addition, I also thought that hardware encoding *reduced* latency,

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 17/09/2013 12:38, Devin Heitmueller wrote: Nope, the opposite. In order to compress the video you need to store enough context to look for repetition. Ok, quite intuitive, once you know what to look for. Yup. We've been through the exercise several times with various HD capture boards.

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe driver resolution.

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
the Dazzle? Regards Steve. On 15/09/2013 17:26, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Sep 15, 2013 11:35 AM, Steve Cookson i...@sca-uk.com wrote: Hi Guys, I seem to be having immense difficulty getting the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe card working on Linux (I'm using Kubuntu 13.04

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe driver resolution.

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/09/2013 14:38, Devin Heitmueller wrote: I'm not sure what other cards you've tried. Nowadays they should all deliverable comparable performance for s-video (since no chroma separation is involved), if they don't then it's almost certainly a Linux driver bug. If you have a

Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi People, I just wrote an email to this group about the Hauppauge 01381. Really it was a fall-back choice. If I can't get anything else then that might be my only option left. But here is my preferred choice. The Startech PEXHDCAP. It costs about $100 here:

Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe driver resolution.

2013-09-15 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I seem to be having immense difficulty getting the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe card working on Linux (I'm using Kubuntu 13.04) with greater than 320x240 resolution. This is what I've done: lspci recognises the card but only as a Conexant card (Vendor ID = 14f1:8852), not

RE: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

2013-06-18 Thread Steve Cookson
over the next month or so, so if you want to keep in touch, I'll let you know how it goes. Regards Steve -Original Message- From: James Board [mailto:jpboa...@yahoo.com] Sent: 18 June 2013 13:19 To: Steve Cookson Subject: Re: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels Hi

RE: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

2013-06-18 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Jim, I don't want to configure a RAID either, but if I purchase one SSD with 400 MB/sec write speeds, that might be good. Hmm... nice idea. Did you have any particular model in mind? If you had a link, I might be interested. I wouldn't know about sizing. I don't know how much space HD raw

RE: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

2013-06-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I'm looking for a capture card for a Linux system.  I'd like to be able to capture Component as well as HDMI (from non-encrypted non-HDCP) sources.  I'd also like to capture the raw pixels, and not use real-time MPEG encoding.  A lossless output format like huffyuv is okay

What digital/analogue video capture card do you use?

2013-06-15 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I have test a number of internal and external analogue video capture cards with Kubuntu 12.04 with more or less success. But I have failed find any cost effective digital ones. Could someone point me at a card which is: - cost-effective - internal (PCIe) - uses hardware compression