On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Somewhere back in the mail list I noticed a posting suggesting frame > grabbing / stills capture might be possible with the hardware, perhaps > awaiting the driver feature to make this possible? > > I realize features equate to development time, and this device is most > likely chosen for it's mpeg2 streaming, but would frame capture to jpeg > be possible directly from the device? >
I interpret this to mean you're looking for a way to grab raw video frames (as opposed to mpeg data). If that's the case then I can tell you that the hardware is theoretically capable of it, but the pvrusb2 driver doesn't currently support this at all. There are some things I can chase to figure this out (including the bit that Mike Krufky mentioned in another reply), however I just haven't had a chance to seriously look at it. The reality is basically that people who use this device want it for the hardware mpeg encoder - if one were instead looking for simple frame buffer capture, there are other (cheaper) devices which have support for that in Linux. With that said, I suppose there's no reason why one couldn't just use some kind of utility to grab snapshots right out of the mpeg stream. I haven't tried anything like this, but surely there's a utility floating around to do that. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
