Hi Greg, Adam, Ruben,

Answers inline ;)

>> The camera shows OK when starting VLC-Player after fresh boot of Ubuntu
>> 10.4.1.LTS.
>> Starting a simple capture results in a green capture with a very thin
>> stripe
>> on the top showing camera content (ie. contents change with the moving of
>> the camera).
>> And after that capture, VLC-Player won't display the camera anymore,
>> instead
>> we see the green picture described above.
>This is a symptom of an incorrect standard setting (PAL vs NTSC)

> When you installed the system, did it prompt you for the capture
> standard?  Which did you choose?
I chose 5=PAL and 1=Composite0, and the file
/opt/matterhorn/capture-agent/device_config.sh
shows this, which I understand  to be correct:

#! /bin/bash
v4l2-ctl -s 4 -d /dev/camera
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/camera -i 0

>> To me it seems, that the capture client somehow modifies the v4l2
>> settings,
>> since VLC shows OK before the capture, but bad after the capture. How can
>> this be prevented or circumvented ?

> So the card works correctly on bootup?  There is a file at (by default)
> /opt/matterhorn/capture-agent/device_config.sh which controls what the
> camera is set to.  If this file is blank then Matterhorn will not change
> any v4l settings. 

The card works correctly directly after bootup, and even with matterhorn
started (which happens on bootup):
I can see video on VLC (v4l2://).
But with starting a capture 2 things happen:
1. The capture is green (except for a thin line at the right upper corner
showing moving content)
2. A subsequent call to VLC (v4l2://) also gives me a green picture.

Only remedy atm is
to switch over to NTSC (before capture) and then back to PAL (during
capture) as mentioned in my previous post; then the capture will be all
right (lest the few seconds in the beginngin NTSC was set)

As posted in my answer to Ruben I confirm this to be Adam Mckenzie's issue
https://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-5404,
and hope for some soon fix/workaround.

ATM I'm checking the matterhorn Trunk version, whether it does any better,
and will report on any success/failure.

Greetings and lots of thanks for the detailed support and ideas, Andreas
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