On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:44 -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi,
> Is video4linux (v4l) supposed to work with Linux/AMD64? I have a
> bt878-based card in my machine. The dmesg log reports that the card is
> being initialized and even has a device assigned to it. Does anyone know
> if v4l programs are supposed to work on Linux/AMD64? I know of at least
> xawtv for viewing video from the card, but that is masked according to
> emerge. When I use the xine program ('xine v4l://'), I just get green
> frames with a little fuzz at the top.
It works for me. I'm using xawtv to view the output of my Phillips
webcam using v4l. I've also got a bt878 based card, but I've never used
it on amd64 - drivers seem to load ok though.
I'm using media-tv/xawtv-3.94-r1, just 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge
xawtv'
Robert.
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