Brian Keener wrote: > On 4/10/06, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 4/10/06, Brian Keener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On 4/9/06, Paul V. Gratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Just out of curiosity, do you think this would be possible by >>>>capturing the "raw" non-encoded video and passing it directly to the >>>>video card? I understand these cards are capable of doing that. >>>>Paul >>> >>> That's quite possible. >>> >>> All I know is that when I had it running under Windows, you could get >> >>live >> >>>video out of it. >>> >>> I think it had to be done via a third party tweak, but still... >> >>If you want the uncompressed stream, use the YUV device (should be >>/dev/video32, but check using ivtv-detect). I think there is still a >>small amount of latency, but have a look at the archives as it's been >>discussed a few times before. IMHO, it defeats the purpose of having a >>hardware encorder and you'd be better off with a bttv card. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Ross >> >> > > Is /dev/video32 a YUV device? The archives all seem to indicate that > /dev/video32 is in some HMI format that only mplayer can play, and the > previous couple of times I've tried to utilize it I got an extremely garbled > output and no sound, even though the mpeg capture worked fine. > > As it is, I've got a bttv card installed as well, but this motherboard only > has three PCI slots and I hate to take two of those with video capture > cards. > > Brian K
From /usr/share/doc/ivtv-0.6.1/README.devices: ... /dev/video32 The raw video capture device(s) Read-only The raw YUV video output from the current video input. The YUV format is non-standard (HME12?) but with the yuv-fixup=1 ivtv module option it is converted to standard YUV format. ... Never tried this, but ... Regards, Bob -- Bob Marcan, Consultant mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S&T Hermes Plus d.d. tel: +386 (1) 5895-300 Leskoskova cesta 6 fax: +386 (1) 5895-202 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia url: http://www.snt.si _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
