Re: Which of my 3 video capture devices will work best with my PC?

2010-03-25 Thread hermann pitton
Hi Serge,

Am Donnerstag, den 25.03.2010, 00:06 +0100 schrieb hermann pitton:
 Am Mittwoch, den 24.03.2010, 16:45 -0600 schrieb Serge Pontejos:
  Greetings all...
  
  I'm interested in doing video transfer from VCR to PC and want to know
  which of the 3 capture devices I have has the best chance of working
  with my setup? I have 3 different symptoms happening with each.
  
  My PC setup:
  Ubuntu Karmic 9.10/2.6.31-20 generic
  Socket 754 AMD Sempron 3000+ with passive cooling (non AMD64)
  Biostar MB with Nforce3 250Gb chipset
  NV31 GPU (Geforce FX5600 Ultra 128MB) using Nvidia 196 driver
  1GB PC3200 DDR RAM
  34GB SCSI coupled to a Adaptec 19160 card
  Soundblaster Audigy
  dvd+-R floppy etc etc.
  
  The devices in question:
  
  USB: Dazzle Digital Photo Maker, using a USBvision driver recognized
  as a Global Village GV-7000)
  
  --This one recognizes and I can display video but if I try to record
  in either xawtv or Kdenlive the program crashes.
  
  PCI: Hauppauge WinTV model 38101
  --When installed it shows /dev/video0 when I do an ls, but I don't get
  a signal with either composite or coax input.   I tried following
  steps from this link http://howtoubuntu.org/?p=20 but it didn't change
  a thing...
  
  PCI: Aurora Systems Fuse previously used on a Mac
  --This card picks up the ZR36067 driver, but it's saying it can't
  initialize the i2c bus. Thus, no /dev/video* shows
  
  Let me know which I should focus on and then I'll show the query dumps.
 
 I guess you don't get any dog out of the hut with such offers.
 
 ;)

please always provide us with the relevant dmesg output also for cards
with trouble.

Maybe we can fix them or at least others are informed about the issues
too.

The bttv WinTV model 38101 might be just a new revision and maybe the
tuner is just missing in tveeprom?

Old ones.

bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :05:04.0, irq: 18, latency: 66, mmio: 0xf840
bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb
bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00fb [init]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 38101, rev B410, serial# 1993042
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx 10, type 2)
tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is None (idx 0)
tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#38101

and

bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :05:04.0, irq: 18, latency: 66, mmio: 0xf840
bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb
bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00fb [init]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 38101, rev B426, serial# 1890608
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Temic 4036FY5 (idx 26, type 8)
tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is None (idx 0)
tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#38101

Cheers,
Hermann



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Re: Which of my 3 video capture devices will work best with my PC?

2010-03-25 Thread hermann pitton
Am Donnerstag, den 25.03.2010, 16:06 -0600 schrieb Serge Pontejos:
 
 
 On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, hermann pitton
 hermann-pit...@arcor.de wrote:
 Hi Serge,
 
 Am Donnerstag, den 25.03.2010, 00:06 +0100 schrieb hermann
 pitton:
 
 
 please always provide us with the relevant dmesg output also
 for cards
 with trouble.
 
 I figured I would try to determine if there was a specific card that
 might have a better chance of working first, then focus on that card's
 problem.  But I'll just supply the dmesg with the BT878 installed
 here...
 
 [   33.150658] Bt87x :02:0a.1: PCI INT A - Link[APC3] - GSI 18
 (level, low) - IRQ 18 
 [   33.150914] bt87x0: Using board 1, analog, digital (rate 32000 Hz) 
 [   33.294887] EMU10K1_Audigy :02:07.0: PCI INT A - Link[APC4] -
 GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 
 [   33.429554] bttv: driver version 0.9.18 loaded 
 [   33.429559] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for
 capture 
 [   33.429609] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). 
 [   33.429629] bttv :02:0a.0: PCI INT A - Link[APC3] - GSI 18
 (level, low) - IRQ 18 
 [   33.429639] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :02:0a.0, irq: 18,
 latency: 32, mmio: 0xe400 
 [   33.429672] bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI
 subsystem ID is 0070:13eb 
 [   33.429675] bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,insmod
 option] 
 [   33.429678] IRQ 18/bttv0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared
 IRQs 
 [   33.429709] bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00fb
 [init] 
 [   33.432194] bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5] 
 [   33.432232] bt878 #0 [sw]: Test OK 
 [   33.475356] tveeprom 3-0050: Hauppauge model 38101, rev B410,
 serial# 1974546 
 [   33.475361] tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx
 10, type 2) 
 [   33.475365] tveeprom 3-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) 
 [   33.475368] tveeprom 3-0050: audio processor is None (idx 0) 
 [   33.475371] tveeprom 3-0050: has no radio 
 [   33.475373] bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#38101 
 [   33.475376] bttv0: tuner type=2 
 [   33.640466] bttv0: audio absent, no audio device found! 
 [   33.671316] tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw]) 
 [   33.816641] tuner-simple 3-0061: creating new instance 
 [   33.816648] tuner-simple 3-0061: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC
 (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) 
 [   33.817329] bttv0: registered device video1 
 [   33.817357] bttv0: registered device vbi1 
 [   33.817374] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 = 35468950 .. ok 
 
 ...which has similar output to your first dmesg example Serial#
 appears to be a little earlier than your example.
  
 Maybe we can fix them or at least others are informed about
 the issues
 too.
 
 The bttv WinTV model 38101 might be just a new revision and
 maybe the
 tuner is just missing in tveeprom?
 
 Old ones.
 
 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :05:04.0, irq: 18, latency: 66,
 mmio: 0xf840
 bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID
 is 0070:13eb
 bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,autodetected]
 bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00fb [init]
 bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
 tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 38101, rev B410, serial#
 1993042
 tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx 10,
 type 2)
 tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
 tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is None (idx 0)
 tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
 bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#38101
 
 Cheers,
 Hermann
 
 This is the xawtv output:
 
 se...@bracken:~$ xawtv -noxv -device /dev/video0
 This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31-20-generic)
 xinerama 0: 1680x1050+0+0
 WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
 WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
  configuration (v4l-conf -a addr)
 v4l2: WARNING: framebuffer base address mismatch
 v4l2: me=(nil) v4l=(nil)
 Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
 Warning: Cannot convert string
 -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
 -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
 -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,
 -efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,
 -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,
 -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,
 -*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,* to type FontSet
 Warning: Cannot convert string
 -*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-* to type FontStruct
 Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
 Warning: Cannot convert string
 -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
 -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
 -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,
 

Re: Which of my 3 video capture devices will work best with my PC?

2010-03-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab

 --This one recognizes and I can display video but if I try to record
 in either xawtv or Kdenlive the program crashes.

Try to use/adapt this script at v4l-utils git 
tree(http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git)
contrib/v4l_rec.pl

It basically uses either mencoder or ffmpeg to generate an mpeg encoded stream
from a video analog capture device.

-- 

Cheers,
Mauro
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