I had downloaded the lates one a couple of weeks ago, compiled it and installed it, but the problem is still there.
Thanks for all the work, Joe > > Well I'd suggest the latest driver from the main > repository: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb > > and see if the problem still persists. If dmesg tells you > right now > that you're using a cx18 driver less than version > 1.0.4, things should > get better with the latest driver. > > Instructions are here: > > http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18 > > but last I heard, Ubuntu does some distribution specific > things that may > make compiling the latest v4l-dvb repo harder than it has > to be. Sorry, > I won't be able to help with that if that's the > case. > > > > Any idea of when you have time to look at this issue? > It sounds like > > you are very busy. > > I'm travelling off and on the the next two weeks, so > I'm not sure when I > will be looking at it. > > Regards, > Andy > > > Anything I can try? > > > > Thanks, > > Joe > > > > > > > > --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Andy Walls > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > From: Andy Walls <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] CX18: Black and white > horizontal line with HVR-1600 > > > To: [email protected], "User discussion > about IVTV" <[email protected]> > > > Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 10:45 PM > > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 17:11 -0800, k niemand > wrote: > > > > I have a HVR-1600 card and installed the > latest > > > driver. I use the > > > > latest Ubuntu distribution. Composite input > works fine > > > apart from an > > > > annoying black and white horizontal line at > the top of > > > the picture. I > > > > tried the --set-crop option using v4l2-ctl > (v4l2-ctl > > > > --set-crop=top=1), but the responds I get is > > > "VIDIOC_G_CROP: failed: > > > > Invalid argument". > > > > > > The driver doesn't really support the crop > ioctl. It > > > provides a stub > > > that goes through some trivial motions, but then > always > > > returns -EINVAL. > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas of how to get rid > of this > > > line? > > > > > > Well, I have to fix the driver to get rid of it. > > > > > > That line is part of the Vertical Blanking > Interval; the > > > white areas are > > > data that's being sent (like CC over NTSC or > VPS or > > > Teletext for other > > > video standards). The wrong values for vblank > and vactive > > > may be being > > > used in the cx18-av-core.c file. > > > > > > Are you using PAL, SECAM, or NTSC? Is this a new > problem, > > > or one that > > > you have always had? What is the composite video > source: a > > > VCR, a cable > > > convertor, or something else? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
