** RESOLVED ** Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-22 Thread Alan Murrell
Hello All, I am not sure why the earlier compilation was not setting up the '/dev/video1' device properly, but a recompilation seems to have fixed the problem. I am now happily recording (started digitizing my VHS tapes I didn't get to last time around ). Oh, one other thing I think most ppl hav

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Hey Ronald, --- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ho! You've got the kernel driver loaded (zr36067). > Unload that first. Oh yes, I did that on purpose to see if it would correct the problem; I was having this problem long before I loaded the kernel driver. However, I'm willing to try a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Alan, On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 21:53, Alan Murrell wrote: > i2c-old 3968 2 [zoran saa7185 > saa7111 zr36067] Ho! You've got the kernel driver loaded (zr36067). Unload that first. Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Hi Ronald, --- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i2c-old, saa7111, saa7185. Here's the snippet of interest from my 'lsmod': Module Size Used byNot tainted zoran 83568 0 (unused) saa7185 1784 0 (unused) saa7111

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Alan, On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:13, Alan Murrell wrote: > Okay, thisis prolly a bone-head question, but I don't > have access to my PVR machine to check... are the > necessary 'i2c' modules that need to be loaded loaded > by the 'update' script, or do they need to be loaded > seperately? I kno

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Hi Ronald, --- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MJPEG board driver version 0.9 > > This is the 'old' driver, right? Well, I compiled it from 0.8, but I think this was a "patched" version that someone here had posted a link to, so as to avoid getting those "kernel may be tainted" mess

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Alan, On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:23, Alan Murrell wrote: > Mar 21 08:17:38 pvr kernel: Zoran ZR36060 + ZR36057/67 > MJPEG board driver version 0.9 This is the 'old' driver, right? > Mar 21 08:17:38 pvr kernel: MJPEG[0]: Zoran ZR36057 > (rev 1) irq: 11, memory: 0xcfefd000. > Mar 21 08:17:38 pvr

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Hi Morten, Okay, looks like my problem is a little more basic than I was thinking... --- Morten_Bgeskov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correctly, so no help here.. but what does your > dmesg say? I did a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' just before running 'update buz', and here's the output: --- mess

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Hi Morten, --- Morten_Bgeskov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure your lavrec gets run as root?, > otherwise you might have a > problem opening the device ;o) Yup. It's bad practise, I know, but I only log on as root on that box. Alan ___

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Morten, On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:46, Morten Bøgeskov wrote: > Are you sure your lavrec gets run as root?, otherwise you might have a > problem opening the device ;o) Shouldn't it give a 'permission denied' then? Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Video/Multimedia developer

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Morten Bøgeskov
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Morten Bøgeskov wrote: >On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Alan Murrell wrote: > >>Okay, >> >>Here's what I did: >> >> 1. mknod /dev/v4l/video1 c 81 1 (because my bttv >>modules takes '/dev/v4l/video0') >> 2. export LAV_VIDEO_DEV=/dev/v4l/video1 >> 3. cd /usr/local/zoran; update buz >> >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Alan, On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:08, Alan Murrell wrote: > Forgive me for this likely stupid question... in > theabove, what does the '$(seq 0 3)' reference? The same as `seq 0 3` - the output of the seq command (0 1 2 3). > 2. export LAV_VIDEO_DEV=/dev/v4l/video1 [..] > **ERROR: [lavrec] Err

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Morten Bøgeskov
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Alan Murrell wrote: >Okay, > >Here's what I did: > > 1. mknod /dev/v4l/video1 c 81 1 (because my bttv >modules takes '/dev/v4l/video0') > 2. export LAV_VIDEO_DEV=/dev/v4l/video1 > 3. cd /usr/local/zoran; update buz > >I made sure all modules that should be loaded >appeaered

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Okay, Here's what I did: 1. mknod /dev/v4l/video1 c 81 1 (because my bttv modules takes '/dev/v4l/video0') 2. export LAV_VIDEO_DEV=/dev/v4l/video1 3. cd /usr/local/zoran; update buz I made sure all modules that should be loaded appeaered to be loaded; the 'videodev' module showed bot 'zora

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Murrell
Hey Ronald, --- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /dev/video0 doesn't exist. :-). Yup, figured that out later on in my rambling :-) > ls -la /dev/video*? I'm guessing /dev/v4l/ doesn't > exist or so. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /dev/video* lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 15

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-21 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Alan, On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:34, Alan Murrell wrote: > **ERROR: [lavrec] Error opening video-device > (/dev/video0): No such file or directory /dev/video0 doesn't exist. :-). > And there are absolutely no '/dev/video' devices of > any kind. I had thought that previously when I rand > the

[Mjpeg-users] Error opening video-device

2003-03-20 Thread Alan Murrell
Hello, I searched the mailing list archives, but kept coming up with nothing to match the above error. Mandrake 9.0 MJPEG Tools 1.6.0 Zoran Driver 8.0 Iomega Buz card I am attempting to transfer a video a firend of mine made on his camcorder (no, not one of *those* videos!) onto my hard drive, s