Re: [V4L] [OT] 3dfx.com. nvidia.com unreachable

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Clifton T. Sharp Jr. wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I'M not the one who's blaming routing hiccups on Abovenet blocking, or recommending everyone jump ship to punish Abovenet. Nor me. It appears to me that it *was* you who said: Yep. Your work should probably consider changing ISP,

Re: [V4L] Problem Installing updated bttv/i2c on RH 6.2

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Darryl wrote: I'm trying to update bttv on my RH 6.2 system to 0.7.67. The bttv faq indicates that you must install the new i2c stack first. It states: If you have installed i2c without patching your kernel tree, you´ll end up with two i2c.h files. The old one lives in the kernel

Re: [V4L] STB TV PCI - how to get TV audio working?

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Ben Bridgwater wrote: The differences between the OEM version and the retail version appear to have been purely analog (the missing line-in jack), so you could try looking on STB/3DFX/nVidia's sites for DesktopTV drivers. Unfortunately nVidia appeares to have abandoned support

Re: [V4L] STB TV PCI - how to get TV audio working?

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Ben Bridgwater wrote: Eric Jorgensen wrote: Ben Bridgwater wrote: The differences between the OEM version and the retail version appear to have been purely analog (the missing line-in jack), so you could try looking on STB/3DFX/nVidia's sites for DesktopTV drivers

Re: [V4L] STB TV PCI - how to get TV audio working?

2001-05-20 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I finally got around to installing my new STB TV PCI card, and it's working fine with xawtv other than that I don't know what I need to do in order to hear the TV audio, and couldn't find how in the docs or grubbing around the net. First, understand that there are at least four

Re: [V4L] BT878 Digitizing from Videotape

2001-05-14 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Hakan Lennestal wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Jorgensen writes: Yes, I've heard that some of the more expensive SVHS vcrs keep the time base converter running no matter what format you're viewing and outputting. Though they originally intended them to convert PAL

Re: [V4L] BT878 Digitizing from Videotape

2001-05-14 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Jodie Reynolds wrote: Even before we go that far, has he checked through the 'obvious'? Keep you cable length as short as you can, but keep the VCR away from the computer's fan and hard drives. (Spinning motors, especially with long and/or poor quality cable are a nono) Also,

[V4L] audio mute weirdness

2001-05-09 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I've noticed an odd behavior when muteing the audio on tv card devices. What's strange is that it's the same on dissimilar hardware, using different interfaces. On either my Hauppauge WinTV 401 or my STB Desktop TV, if i either mute the fm tuner by using fmutills fm off or, when using the

Re: [V4L] Re: audio mute weirdness

2001-05-09 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Gerd Knorr wrote: On either my Hauppauge WinTV 401 or my STB Desktop TV, if i either mute the fm tuner by using fmutills fm off or, when using the tvmixer module, use an oss mixer application (gmix, etc) to mute the tv audio device, only one channel gets muted. Hmm, what audio

Re: [V4L] Hauppauge WinTV PCI-FM support level in Linux ?

2001-05-07 Thread Eric Jorgensen
David Balazic wrote: Hi! I am considering a purchase of a Hauppauge WinTV PCI-FM card and am interested about the level of support in Linux. Are all features of the card supported and working ? If not , what is missing ? You'll have to be more specific, there are a lot of

Re: [V4L] No sound with 3Demon. Please HELP !

2001-04-26 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Adrian Minta wrote: I have a 3Demon TV/FM stereo card made by Provideo (pv951) and I it works but without sound. My configuration is: Debian Potato kernel 2.2.18 bttv0.64h Chances are, bttv 0.6.x simply doesn't support all the chips on your card. This isn't surprising, since it's

Re: [V4L] FW: Oops when rmmoding bttv

2001-04-23 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Greg Hosler wrote: On 23-Apr-01 Gerd Knorr wrote: what I don't understand is, what is the msp3410, stereo TV sound decoder. and why is the msp3410 going into auto-detect when the bttv is unloading ? It goes into autodetect on _loading_ (asyncronly in a kernel thread). I'm

Re: [V4L] i2c Problem -Please Help

2001-04-09 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Michael Stearne wrote: I have a WinTV FM Tuner card. I have installed the 2.4.3 kernel with all the v4l stuff selected as modules. Everything builds fine, i2c, bttv, etc. When I do : (as directed in MiniHOWTO at http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/BTTV-Mini-HOWTO-0.3-4.html ) ..." insmod

Re: [V4L] Hauppauge new (Bt878) with kernel 2.2.16

2001-04-01 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I'm very new to this list and to linux. I ask you to help me. I've a Bt878 (Hauppauge new) chip based TV-Tuner card and Corel linux 1.2. How can I use it? The v4l modules are now compiled as module (and of course the i2o too) Please help me! I want change my win98 to Linux completely...

Re: [V4L] best tv-card

2001-03-29 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I've had good luck with my Hauppauge WinTV 401, but it was expensive. I got it *on *clearance for $81. I like the STB Desktop TV as well, but earlier STB tv cards (TV-PCI especially) are a bad choice for V4L. You can get OEM version DesktopTV cards on eBay for about $30 plus

Re: [V4L] Creative CT7160 MPEG Inlay Card

2001-03-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Jon Pennington wrote: I've done a bit of digging on the Internet about this card, and have yet to find a definitive answer as to wether or not it works. I can't even find good schematics on the physical board layout. Can anyone here speak for it's Linux status? Wrong list.

Re: [V4L] Bt848 / capture card failure mode?

2001-03-15 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Benedict Bridgwater wrote: Thanks, Justin. I just wanted to confirm it's most likely a hardware failure, before I replaced it. I've just ordered an STB DesktopTV card (Bt848, TV/FM, S-Video) from computergeeks.com for $37, thanks to whoeveer posted that link. Can't go wrong at that

Re: [V4L] Problem with ATI TV-Wonder

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Alan Cox wrote: When I try to run a TV application (such as xawtv), my system displays about one second of video before completely freezing (no mouse or video activity). I then have to reset my system. I would like to resolve this issue, are there options I need to specify to the

Re: [V4L] USB WebCam Recommendations

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Brian Rozmierski wrote: I tried searching the archives but can't seem to find a good answer. Does anyone know of a decent webcam that can be purchased new nowadays (in the US) that currently is supported in Linux. I don't need perfect (I have 1 Creative Labs Webcam III that works fine,

Re: [V4L] Problem with ATI TV-Wonder

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Alan Cox wrote: The first time, when i rebooted one of my dimms was clearly toast. memtest86 reported numerous errors starting from the first bit of it. The second time, everything was fine after a power cycle. soft reboot didn't help. I'm wondering if it might have

Re: [V4L] USB WebCam Recommendations

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Brian Rozmierski wrote: The target application is multicast videoconfrencing so 15 fps would be the target, price depending. My Webcam III is running at 8fps right now and is tolerable, but not ideal. Either way after we hit 10 people with video and audio on the multicast confrence fps is

[V4L] bttv 0.7.58 breaks FM radio on STB Desktop TV

2001-03-06 Thread Eric Jorgensen
My bet is that it's the changes to the tuner range checks tweaks, since any frequency comes back as out of range when you check the logs. Currently. the fm tuner on these boards, for some reason, has to be initialized by setting it to an impossible frequency, such as 500mhz.

Re: [V4L] tvtuner suggestion

2001-02-20 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Aaron Solochek wrote: A friend of mine made me a deal... He said that he would buy me a tv tuner card if I recorded some show for him on a daily basis and had it avalible for him to download... This is because he doesn't get cable, and I do. Anyways, this seems like a pretty good deal to

Re: [V4L] Kernel 2.2.18pre2 breaks xawtv?

2001-02-20 Thread Eric Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the changes in 2.2.18pre2's bttv.c and friends have broken something. Here's how things go: Call me anal but, shouldn't you try using the release version of 2.2.18 first, instead of reporting bugs in an old pre-release version? - Eric

Re: [V4L] help !!

2001-02-09 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Hi I am using a ATI ALL IN WONDER 128 16mb tv tuner card. I would like to know if there are any applications that can do a video capture from the TV input. If there are any source code available please let me know. http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ - Eric

Re: [V4L] v4l bttv Newbee confusion

2001-01-29 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Tobias Gogolin wrote: Ok I just got me an AverMedia Tv Series Framegrabber it has a Bt 878 and a tuner and on the PCI board There is a sticker on the tuner with the following checkboxes: N N-j P-N P-M PBG PDK PI SDK BG + DK SL N is the only one checked ! it also has

[V4L] No FM for STB TV+FM ? (bt878 + phillips tuner)

2001-01-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Recently aquired one of the many of these appearing on eBay for $30. I'm specifying "card=40 radio=1" for bttv.o and "type=2" for tuner.o - I can tune the radio but all i hear is static. I'm not sure precisely which phillips tuner is on board, but i can sure pull it

Re: [V4L] No FM for STB TV+FM ? (bt878 + phillips tuner)

2001-01-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Eric Jorgensen wrote: Recently aquired one of the many of these appearing on eBay for $30. Forgot to say, kernel is 2.2.18, bttv is 0.7.54 ___ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

Re: [V4L] No FM for STB TV+FM ? (bt878 + phillips tuner)

2001-01-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I thought I'd seen this mentioned before so i searched my archive. The fm radio portion of the tuner works, but only if you first tune the radio to a frequency above 400 or 500 or so mhz, and then try to tune a regular station. Then it works. If you have this card,

Re: [V4L] Network camera, Hauppauge 404 vs. 401, stream low res video, or frames,to Browser without plug-ins.

2001-01-19 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Barry Gurberg wrote: Hello everybody. I am new to this list. Here goes my first post. 1.Anybody have success with a Network camera (with an IP address) connected to a LAN connected to the internet running Linux? Can I use my camera (Sony EVI-D30 with VISCA camera control through the

Re: [V4L] composite jack on Haupauge WinTV card

2001-01-05 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Mark Shadley wrote: I have a Haupauge WinTV card. There is a composite-in video jack on the card, but I can't find a plug small enough to fit into the jack. Does anyone know what kind of plug I need? I believe you may be confused. several WinTV cards encorporate the S-Video and

[V4L] Strange data encoded in the signal from a PBS affiliate

2001-01-01 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I was flipping through channels just now and saw something I didn't recognize on one of the local PBS affiliates. They were airing Arthur, a popular children's animated series, and there was a vertical bar along the top 80% of the left hand side of the screen, in the area of the video

Re: [V4L] Strange data encoded in the signal from a PBS affiliate

2001-01-01 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Eric Jorgensen wrote: The data seemed to update a couple times a second, but didn't seem to be entirely regular. Visually, it resembles a barcode. So, I snapped a picture. Anybody know what this is? Good thing you mentioned Arthur, since it made it easier to track down

Re: [V4L] Pinnacle Studio PCTV (NTSC)

2000-11-22 Thread Eric Jorgensen
miro or pinnacle? Miro has another tuner chip for the radio and bttv some extra code in bttv-cards.c to control it. If pinnacle maintains the same design it might be enouth to just enable that code for the pinnacle cards too. Gerd, Interesting remark, thanks. I've been looking

Re: [V4L] bttv multiprocessor oddity

2000-11-13 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Jonathan H N Chin wrote: I have a Gigabyte GA-6BXDU dual-processor motherboard. With the BIOS setting MPS=1.1, scsi hangs but USB works. With the BIOS setting MPS=1.4, usb fails but scsi works. Interesting. My setup is an Abit BP6 with a pair of 466mhz Celerons, Symbios

Re: [V4L] recommendations for video cards for Linux RH 7.0

2000-11-02 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I am using the Rdhat 7.0 kernel 2.2.16smp on a ABIT BP6 Dual CPU motherboard. Same motherboard here, good solid equipment in my experience. I had tried the hauppage winttv-go pci card but did not have much success with it. I've heard WinTV Go is a pretty new card, and

Re: [V4L] bttv PROBLEMS

2000-09-29 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Nathaniel Berenstein wrote: Compiling the BTTV 0.7.38,0.7.40,0.7.43: there`s a lot of errors with kcompat.h (problems with pci) I `m root My kernel is 2.2.14 (Red hat 6.2) I`ve patched my kernel with i2c All the option in I2c and video for linux are in "m" TV max Zoltrix I GOT THE

Re: [V4L] dvd movies

2000-08-29 Thread Eric Jorgensen
andru sprott wrote: hi all err, is dvd playback under v4l possible? atm i've got a xpert2k and it has mpeg2 playback hardware built into the rage 128 chipset. The ATi boards have some significant bits and pieces that aide software DVD playback, but a DVD decoder it aint. dvd

Re: [V4L] Trouble Getting WinTV Go! to work.

2000-08-15 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Eric- Thanks for the info, I will give it a try tonight. As for V4L as a whole, how stable is it? I had it crash my machine last night... it was my first lockup in about 15 months. The Bt8x8 series are agressive pci busmasters. If your PCI bus isn't up to it (Intel Neptune

Re: [V4L] Trouble Getting WinTV Go! to work.

2000-08-15 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Triton1 is fine (there are workarounds enabled), Neptune is fine without any workarounds but will give poor capture performance. SiS .. well old SIS is bad dunno about new My old Neptune based system (Micronics motherboard, pci/eisa, dual socket 5 with matched P133 cpus) blew big

Re: Blank screen

2000-07-17 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Wrong version, wrong modprobe order, missing some arguments :) You'll experience much more joy with gerd knorr's bttv 0.7.3x series - http://ME.IN-Berlin.de/~kraxel/bttv.html good luck. Hope I didn't come off as harsh, this group is actually really helpful, but the bttv

Re: Are any USB Tuner cards supported yet

2000-06-26 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I currently have an NVIDIA based AGP card with video in and out, which uses the Techwell TW98 chipset for capture. Sadly capture isn't supported under Linux otherwise this would suit most of my needs. Someone has written a skeleton nVidia i2c driver, which means that capture

Re: Are any USB Tuner cards supported yet

2000-06-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Steven Ellis wrote: I have noticed quite a number of USB Tuner and Capture cards have appeared recently. Has any work started on supporting these under Linux. Also has anyone got technical info on the various chipsets in use. CPIA based capture devices are supported, I think one or

Re: FM Tuner Antenna

2000-06-19 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Tasnim Ahmed wrote: Hello: I have a TV/FM Tuner on my Voodoo3 TV which requires a co-axial FM antenna, now I dont have any idea of what to attach at the other end of the cable, does it resemble a TV antenna ?? You probably want a dipole for FM reception, there's a rough

Re: parallel port video camera

2000-06-08 Thread Eric Jorgensen
The original parallel port color quickcam does work with linux. the color quickcam II, VC, etc, do not. - Eric Hi, Does anyone have tested a parallel port video camera lately? does someone knows if color quickcam from logithec does work under linux?? Thanks any help

Re: IRC

2000-06-07 Thread Eric Jorgensen
efnet is a festering tangle of hackneyed servers managed by warring factions of prideful, power hungry admins. It's the seedy biker bar of irc networks. Maybe the openprojects.net irc net is more appropriate? - Eric I dont know if many of you guys use IRC but I am gonna

fm radio weirdness w/ wintv 401

2000-06-07 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I'm using gerd's bttv 0.7.30, kernel 2.2.15 patched with the i2c patch available at gerd's site. What I'm seeing is that it seems there's some interaction between the fm radio driver portion of this deal, and the msp3400 mixer. Adjusting the volume of the radio using

No sound with Hauppauge 401 . . .

2000-06-04 Thread Eric Jorgensen
Using 0.7.30 and kwintv 0.7.1 The odd part is, the radio works fine, but I get no sound when watching tv. Am i missing something? loading bttv via "modprobe bttv card=10 radio=1" All the modules are loaded, everything looks like it's doing the right thing. I

Re: Status of FM radio support on Happauge 401?

2000-05-31 Thread Eric Jorgensen
ah, err, sorry, figured that one out for myself. works fine here with bttv 0.7.30 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.