Erik Kobal/IHP/FCG/PARKER is out of the office.

2003-08-14 Thread ekobal
I will be out of the office starting 08/13/2003 and will not return until 08/14/2003. I will respond to your message when I return. - PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb hermann pitton: Thanks for the friendly reply and enjoy your new bug. What I want to say is, that it might not happen only with the nvidia and not to use the overlay mode from xawtv _at all_ for a while can make shure, that you have that one out. (Set it to grabdisplay in

Re: V4L #defines for Quickcam (was: Re: buggy v4l apps)

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Then some cameras supported by qc-usb can deliver MJPEG compressed frames and I have used #define VIDEO_PALETTE_MJPEG (('q'8) | 2) /* Grab video in compressed MJPEG format */ No. Looks like it's in 4:2:2 packed format (YUY2, I guess). I didn't

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:11:54PM +0200, Ronald Bultje wrote: Hey, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, but when the kernel became a heap? why not to take as an example ALSA? create a small add-ons library, that can do transformations. ALSA is the worst

Re: drop lircd!

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DVB driver for WinTV Nexus-S (and similar cards) did that for quite a while now. We use it in conjunction with DirectFB (which reads events directly from /dev/input/eventX). I don't know how well it works for X. - driver:

[patch] MPlayer support for v4l2

2003-08-14 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Hi all, here is a patch for a full support for Video For Linux 2, which seems to work well for me. Feel free to give it a try and send bug reports, or preferably patches :) The command line parameters are fairly similar to v4l, except the norm setting, which is done using the normid=number

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thus, a small driver will take in a primitive case: 768x576x3x16(12 packed into words) = 2654208 bytes. to make all calculations, one will need additional buffers (2-3) - up to 7Mb of kernel space. +doublebuffering+additional space

Refresh of Osprey patches

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Tillman
Patches supporting osprey cards can be found at: ftp://ftp.ospreyvideo.com/pub/OSP-200/Linux/patches Only new feature (since last submit at 103) is support for osprey 230. Patches are against bttv-0.7.107 and btaudio-0.7. Major differences are: bttv gpio changes (required for

Re: drop lircd!

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I had a look at the driver mentioned above. How do you avoid that the keyboard events end up in the console keyboard queue? Seems your driver does basically the same mine does. Can the linux console and/or input layer configured

saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Miller
I was wondering if someone could give me some idea as to how stable the saa7134 driver is? I am thinking about buying a flyvideo 3000, and am wondering if the thing is going to be reliable or not? I am running 2.4.21 right now. Thanks, Jason -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The waste of memory argument only works if you ignore user space. If the driver doesn't provide multiple buffers, then the application has to. The buffers are still there, they've just moved. Even worse: If the application needs its own buffer queue

RE: GPIO access on bt878

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Tillman
hope we can access the gpio =] But for bt878's GPIO, imho, the simplest solution will be to write simple hack to add three ioctl-s for GPIO enabling, reading and writing. May be, if I have'nt solve this problem in some other way, I'll try to make this hack - probably it is not too hard :)

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Jason Miller: I was wondering if someone could give me some idea as to how stable the saa7134 driver is? I am thinking about buying a flyvideo 3000, and am wondering if the thing is going to be reliable or not? I am running 2.4.21 right now. Hi, sorry last night I didn't

Re: How to capture frames from all 4 AV inputs on a Bt878 chipsetcard?(fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Alexandre Strube wrote: Hey, xawtv does that, but just one at a time... It has ackward names for every input, under video source tab. there's input=number option (man mplayer, -tv options) A thing that I wish to do is capture all 4 inputs at same time.. easy, buy another three TV cards ;) --

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I could use several internal and mmap buffers like pwc driver. Yes. But since it works so fine right now, I don't want to. IMHO you should. And really, you can't deny that it's the applications that should be fixed which expect at least two

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Gerd/Tuukka, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:40, Gerd Knorr wrote: Actually, maybe there's no point fixing application but maybe they should be ported right away to Gstreamer =) gstreamer IMHO is overkill just for doing conversions. IMHO it would be better to put that into a small library

Re: Device or resource busy error using bttv-0.9.11

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb suriya mohan: Hi herman and Tom, Thanks for u'r comments and suggestions. Now it works as I expected. But when ffmpeg recording the live TV show the motion of the video streams in xawtv is bit slow. Then when i stop recording, that is when i stop ffmpeg recording video streams

[patch] bilangual support for Xvideo

2003-08-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, I noticed yesterday that xawtv does not support switching between mono/stereo/lang1/lang2 when using the xfree86 Xvideo extension (the v4l module). Out of impulse I hacked right away... Attached are two patches, one for xawtv-3.88, and one for xfree86-4.X (against the newest v4l.c fetched

Re: Re: Device or resource busy error using bttv-0.9.11

2003-08-14 Thread suriya mohan
Hi herman and Tom, Thanks for u'r comments and suggestions. Now it works as I expected. But when ffmpeg recording the live TV show the motion of the video streams in xawtv is bit slow. Then when i stop recording, that is when i stop ffmpeg recording video streams there is no audio in xawtv.

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, hermann pitton wrote: Es schrieb Tim Connors: On 9 Aug 2003, Jason Miller wrote: I was wondering if someone could give me some idea as to how stable the saa7134 driver is? I am thinking about buying a flyvideo 3000, and am wondering if the thing is going to

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: I take it you do the format conversion and copying into the mmapped buffer on the sync call? Yes. Have you considered doing the format conversion earlier? Have Not seriously. I can't think of any advantage of that. just one bounce buffer for the

Re: V4L #defines for Quickcam (was: Re: buggy v4l apps)

2003-08-14 Thread Billy Biggs
Tuukka Toivonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Then some cameras supported by qc-usb can deliver MJPEG compressed frames and I have used #define VIDEO_PALETTE_MJPEG (('q'8) | 2) /* Grab video in compressed MJPEG format */ No. Looks like it's in

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Tuukka, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:31, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Actually, maybe there's no point fixing application but maybe they should be ported right away to Gstreamer =) Great idea! (I'd recommend to first fix Gstreamer's v4l/v4l2 plugins to actually have a proper one-buffer-mmap()

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Billy Biggs
Tuukka Toivonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: The waste of memory argument only works if you ignore user space. If the driver doesn't provide multiple buffers, then the application has to. The buffers are still there, they've just moved. You missed some

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread alsa
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: However, Gerd disagrees: gstreamer IMHO isn't the solution through. I doubt making gstreamer a requirement to talk to v4l devices would be accepted by the users and developers. gstreamer does to much (it is more that libasound for video) and has

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Jindrich Makovicka: [snip] I am using tvtime CVS for watching and mplayer/mencoder CVS for video capture, latest saa7134 driver snapshot (needs 2.4.22 kernel or some minor modification of the source). Just at the moment I am using mplayer CVS for watching tv and don't trust my

Re: GPIO access on bt878

2003-08-14 Thread hexa
I need to access the GPIO too, and also the i2c :) i saw something about i2c, in digests #1520-30 take a look guys hope we can access the gpio =] -hexa - Original Message - From: Andrey P. Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:18 AM Subject:

Re: [patch] MPlayer support for v4l2

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Jindrich Makovicka: Hi all, here is a patch for a full support for Video For Linux 2, which seems to work well for me. Feel free to give it a try and send bug reports, or preferably patches :) The command line parameters are fairly similar to v4l, except the norm setting,

Re: drop lircd!

2003-08-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Gerd Knorr wrote: This is a prof-of-concept port of a lirc infrared remote driver to the 2.6 kernel input layer. Nice. Not sure whenever it is a good idea to put the IR keys into the normal keyboard queue. That means that the application with the keyboard focus will also receive the IR

Re: Re: Device or resource busy error using bttv-0.9.11

2003-08-14 Thread suriya mohan
Hi Hermann, Thanks a lot for u'r comments and suggestions.If we make v4l2 available, will the problem in discussion get over? If so how to make v4l2 available in my system ? I want to work in framebuffer device in linux console. so i will use fbtv(Framebuffer Tv) from xawtv. I don't want X

Re: Hauppauge WinTV PVR - ( Sound !!! )

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Liguori
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driver writing sample/guide?

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Wu
Hi, I'm in the process of writing a v4l2 driver for a custom video board. I've downloaded the sample driver (dated 20020330) from thedirks.org ftp site as well as the most recent headers and source (20030626). Unfortunately, the driver no longer compiles with the most recent version of the

RE: driver writing sample/guide?

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Yung
I don't know if there is any other sample for v4l2, but u can take a look at this report. http://www.cs.tcd.ie/courses/csll/furlongm0203.pdf Roger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Wu Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Tim Connors: On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, hermann pitton wrote: Es schrieb Tim Connors: On 9 Aug 2003, Jason Miller wrote: I was wondering if someone could give me some idea as to how stable the saa7134 driver is? I am thinking about buying a flyvideo 3000, and am

Re: bttv 0.7.X crashes AMD Duron machines?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael O'Keefe
I had the same problem with my Athlon 1800+ and have since moved my recording to an Intel box (albeit slower, but I reduced the MJPEG quality to stop losing frames) but I *very* occasionally still have this problem when converting my recordings to DivX using the Athlon. I have looked around the

Re: Hauppauge WinTV PVR - No Sound

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:14:44 -0400 Robert Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the chipsets on the board, which one is sound? CONEXANT FUSION 878A Dumb question from me: A CONEXANT chipset? I have a new WinTV GO that changed from the BTTV chip to a CONEXANT chip. I think it is a

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Jason Miller: Hey, I was just planning on using apps that use v4l2, like XAWTV. Just for basic TV viewing and recording. Say, is a 1ghz athlon tbird enough horse power to record 640x480 and encode in mpeg2 in realtime (or any descent codec for that matter)? Or do you

Re: saa7134-20030806 snapshot fails to load

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
hermann pitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just tried on the 2.4.20-v4l2 with gcc-3.2.2 on RH-9. For the latest snapshots you need latest kernels, i.e. 2.4.22-pre Gerd -- sigfault -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: v4l : grabbing with RGB24 palette and display with XPutImage

2003-08-14 Thread alsa
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, sting sting wrote: Hello , I am looking for an application (on Linux) which grabs a frame with RGB24 palette (or read a corresponding PPM file ) and displays it with by calling XPutImage (of XLib) in order to try solve problems in development. (the app should use

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Oh great, you've written yet another driver that does format conversion in the kernel? Yes (well, not from scratch... credits go to other people too) When will these webcam authors (yourself included!) write a userspace library for webcams that does

Re: V4L #defines for Quickcam (was: Re: buggy v4l apps)

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: No, the function is right, I was just reading it wrong. I was referring to the extents. If you're using this MPEG2 conversion function to convert JPEG data to RGB, then you're likely using the wrong conversion function (your colours will be slightly

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Miller
Hey, I was just planning on using apps that use v4l2, like XAWTV. Just for basic TV viewing and recording. Say, is a 1ghz athlon tbird enough horse power to record 640x480 and encode in mpeg2 in realtime (or any descent codec for that matter)? Or do you really need something with more

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Eldridge
hermann pitton wrote: Es schrieb Bill Eldridge: hermann pitton wrote: Mp4live you still have to unmute with v4lctl I wrote a simple (ugly/quick) channelchanger program in C to handle changing the frequency without v4lctl. It can easily be modified

drop lircd!

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Hi, This is a prof-of-concept port of a lirc infrared remote driver to the 2.6 kernel input layer. I picked lirc_i2c.c, simply because I have hardware to play with for that one. For now it works with Hauppauge WinTV cards only. The driver just puts the keys from the infrared remote into the

v4l2 and 2.6.0-test3

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Miller
Hi, Just wanted to make sure that if I use a 2.6.0 testing kernel that I do _not_ need to patch the kernel with v4l2 in order to use the saa7134 driver? Thanks, Jason -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Best capture/encode techniques/tools?

2003-08-14 Thread Darek M
Hey guys, I'm fairly new to the video capture business and am having some difficulties. Maybe some of you could share some of the tools and settings that you use to capture under Linux. I use ffmpeg under Slackware to try to capture some video from a VHS. I have a P4 1.6GHz processor and a

Erik Kobal/IHP/FCG/PARKER is out of the office.

2003-08-14 Thread ekobal
I will be out of the office starting 08/13/2003 and will not return until 08/14/2003. I will respond to your message when I return. - PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for

Re: How to capture frames from all 4 AV inputs on a Bt878 chipsetcard?(fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Alexandre Strube
Em Sex, 2003-08-08 às 13:51, Lamar Owen escreveu: Are they really simultaneous, or is the app multiplexing? It probably is, but the funny fact is the 16 and 32 cameras' models, performance is inferior, but it works in a usable way. I've never seen a suitable example of this in linux... Maybe

bt878 (Hauppauge) question

2003-08-14 Thread Neil Radisch
I've built an application that uses 2 Hauppauge cards for capture, and a Matrox 550 for display on a TV. This work fine when one Hauppauge card is running and the data is being displayed. However when I activate the second card things get a little wacky. First I will start getting brief glitches

Spirit SCP 1000

2003-08-14 Thread Darryl Barlow
I have a Spirit scp 1000 tv tuner card (see www.spiritmodems.com.au) and have tried so far without success to get it running on Debian unstable or Mandrake 9.1. I have found a couple of references on the net to this model working but the parameters used with the bttv driver by these people do

Re: V4L #defines for Quickcam (was: Re: buggy v4l apps)

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey again, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:36, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Then some cameras supported by qc-usb can deliver MJPEG compressed frames and I have used #define VIDEO_PALETTE_MJPEG (('q'8) | 2) /* Grab video in compressed MJPEG format */ in V4L2 there is V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG but I

Re: drop lircd!

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Uman
JOKE: I thought this read 'Re: drop acid!' or 'Re: drop lsd' Whoops, not so funny anymore... Michael Uman On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:17, Gerd Knorr wrote: Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DVB driver for WinTV Nexus-S (and similar cards) did that for quite a while now.

pixelview + bttv

2003-08-14 Thread k0n
Greetings, Is there a way to fix my simple problem there are white/green horizontal lines at the right end of the picture, plus a small green line at bottom right. It's hard to describe but i got some screenshots very small. http://k0nfu.8bit.co.uk/tmp/img1.jpg

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Bill Eldridge: hermann pitton wrote: Mp4live you still have to unmute with v4lctl I wrote a simple (ugly/quick) channelchanger program in C to handle changing the frequency without v4lctl. It can easily be modified to add the IOCTL for mute as well.

Device or resource busy error using bttv-0.9.11

2003-08-14 Thread suriya mohan
Hi hermann, Thanks. Now bttv-0.9.11 compiles without any error and the new bttv driver is loaded sucessfully. bttv: driver version 0.7.106 loaded. Line from dmesg. I updated bttv driver to avoid Device or resource busy error. What I want is, I want to run XAWTV in parallel with FFMPEG.

Re: Cinelerra mess

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Wieslaw Kierbedz wrote: I'm really sorry but my experiences with cinerella are not so wonder. I tried precompiled version and compiled by myself. Compilation needs many tricks - I had to compile some parts before, handly link or copy some binaries from place to place. Some

streamer problems (was:Re: bttv+scsi writing)

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Another inconvenient problem is that if I record uncompressed yv12 video at full resolution and rate to the SCSI disk with streamer, it says often fifo audio is full and the audio will go out of sync with the video. With This was a problem with reiserfs,

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
That's not so hard. The kernel API tells me the format, I decode in userspace. I don't need a lib to do that for me transparently. The lib saves you duplicating after you decide you need to decode it -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Device or resource busy error using bttv-0.9.11

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Zoerner
Suriya Mohan wrote: On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 hermann pitton wrote : Es schrieb suriya mohan: bttv: driver version 0.7.106 loaded. Line from dmesg. What 0.9.11 loads with 0.7.106 version? There is no v4l2. Thanks a lot for u'r comments and suggestions.If we make v4l2 available, will the problem in

oops with osprey 230

2003-08-14 Thread Jure Pecar
Hi there, I have an repeatable oops, triggered by producer -pd (real producer, print devices): Linux video capture interface: v1.00 i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module bttv: driver version 0.7.104 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture

Erik Kobal/IHP/FCG/PARKER is out of the office.

2003-08-14 Thread ekobal
I will be out of the office starting 08/13/2003 and will not return until 08/14/2003. I will respond to your message when I return. - PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for

Re: Cinelerra mess

2003-08-14 Thread Wieslaw Kierbedz
on 11-08-2003 5:49 AM, Marvin Dickens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Green wrote: So it looks like I've got plenty of glib's. The above statement makes no sense at all. if it sucks, what's a better alternative. Cinelerra is, among other things a professional video editing system.

Re: How to capture frames from all 4 AV inputs on a Bt878 chipset card?(fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 08 August 2003 11:58, Alexandre Strube wrote: Anyway, the camera shows 4 simultaneous images (and there are models which does up to 16) when used this windows app. What I want to do is the same, for linux. Are they really simultaneous, or is the app multiplexing? Understand that to

Re: Still problem compiling new bttv driver

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb suriya mohan: Hi, Thanks. Suggest me which kernel patch will help bttv-0.9.11 driver to compile without any error.Provide me the link for the exact patch. Hi Suriyah, you can do some --dry-run on the 2.4.20 you already have and then patch you up comfortably to latest -pre

Re: [2.6-test3] bttv driver doesn't run

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
kernel, because when I tried to configure them as modules, I got thousands over thousands of unresolved symbols. I tried to resolve them, modprobe should resolve the dependencies for you ... Gerd -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Save Frames

2003-08-14 Thread schnatte
Hello At the time I use the ffmpeg tool for saved every frame as a pgm image too the disk. But I hade some little problems with it. Every second image is bust whatever I had choosen for the framerate. Does anybody know a other programm to save 25 frames/sec as images to the disk. Thanks very

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread Wieslaw Kierbedz
Uytkownik Jindrich Makovicka napisa: Jason Miller wrote: I was wondering if someone could give me some idea as to how stable the saa7134 driver is? I am thinking about buying a flyvideo 3000, and am wondering if the thing is going to be reliable or not? I am running 2.4.21 right now. I've got

Re: [2.6-test3] bttv driver doesn't run

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
When trying to run the tv-application tvtime, the kernel throws some more messages. tvtime worked fine for a few seconds (video and audio worked), but then it froze and was non-workable from then on. Does reloading the driver help? Aug 9 20:49:08 lfs kernel: bttv0: timeout: risc=0f7ae874,

Re: Hauppauge WinTV PVR - No Sound

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Miller
Does anyone have any idea in what sort of time frame the CX88 driver will be at least of beta quality? On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 23:15, Steve Tell wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:14:44 -0400 Robert Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the

Cinelerra mess

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Green
I am trying to get Cinelerra to work and I keep getting this kind of error: Trying to load external codec quicktime_codec_rpza.so Can't load the codec quicktime_codec_rpza.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory quicktime_delete_vcodec_stub called So I tried to load some

v4l : grabbing with RGB24 palette and display with XPutImage

2003-08-14 Thread sting sting
Hello , I am looking for an application (on Linux) which grabs a frame with RGB24 palette (or read a corresponding PPM file ) and displays it with by calling XPutImage (of XLib) in order to try solve problems in development. (the app should use vide4linux 1 , not vide4linux 2); regards, sting

Re: Device or resource busy error using bttv-0.9.11

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb suriya mohan: Hi hermann, Thanks. Now bttv-0.9.11 compiles without any error and the new bttv driver is loaded sucessfully. bttv: driver version 0.7.106 loaded. Line from dmesg. What 0.9.11 loads with 0.7.106 version? There is no v4l2. I updated bttv driver to avoid

logitech 4000 (formerly a philips webcam ) and video4linux 2

2003-08-14 Thread sting sting
Hello , I have logitech 4000 (formerly a philips webcam ) . according to documentatiom , this camera works only with YUV420P. Trying to use video4linux 1 works with no problems. I wonder whther this camera supports video4linux 2 API ? and , generally , how do I know wheter a certain camera

No S-Video Capture on Osprey 230

2003-08-14 Thread Sam Liston
Not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong. Using xawtv I am able to capture using the Composite In, but not the S-Video. Any suggestions? Samuel T. ListonDigital Communication TechnicianCtr. for High Performance Computing, Univ. of Utah[EMAIL PROTECTED]801-232-6932

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Tim Connors: On 9 Aug 2003, Jason Miller wrote: I was wondering if someone could give me some idea as to how stable the saa7134 driver is? I am thinking about buying a flyvideo 3000, and am wondering if the thing is going to be reliable or not? I am running 2.4.21 right

Erik Kobal/IHP/FCG/PARKER is out of the office.

2003-08-14 Thread ekobal
I will be out of the office starting 08/13/2003 and will not return until 08/14/2003. I will respond to your message when I return. - PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for

OT: 2.6.0-test3 matroxfb - howto?

2003-08-14 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Sorry people, but it's the only Linux mailing list I'm subscribed to (mostly run FreeBSD). Does anybody use matroxfb with 2.6.0-testX kernels? I've tried it (oldish system with PIII 450 MHz) but the console is totally unusable no matter what mode I choose. System: Chaintech MB, Matrox G550. Any

Re: oops with osprey 230

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Jure Pecar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: divide error: EIP is at btaudio_dsp_ioctl [btaudio] 0x112 (2.4.20-19.9) That divide error looks especially interesting. Can you check with strace which ioctl it is? Gerd -- sigfault -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Es schrieb Bill Eldridge: hermann pitton wrote: Es schrieb Bill Eldridge: hermann pitton wrote: Mp4live you still have to unmute with v4lctl I wrote a simple (ugly/quick) channelchanger program in C to handle changing the frequency without v4lctl. It can easily be modified to add

RE: oops with osprey 230

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Tillman
Sorry, I missed this when it was posted. The osprey 230 should be treated the same as an Osprey 220 from bttv's perspective. For this to happen a one line code addition must be made in bttv-cards.c to add the eeprom identifier into the card type switch. Search for btv-type = BTTV_OSPREY2x0; and

Re: Cinelerra mess

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Tell
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Dan Green wrote: I did a rpm -qa |grep glib and got these results: glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6 glib2-2.0.6-2 glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.20 glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6 glib-1.2.10-8 glibc-devel-2.3.2-4.80.6 So it looks like I've got plenty of glib's. So what do I do now? How do

Re: Cinelerra mess

2003-08-14 Thread Marvin Dickens
Dan Green wrote: So it looks like I've got plenty of glib's. The above statement makes no sense at all. if it sucks, what's a better alternative. Cinelerra is, among other things a professional video editing system. It works quite well for a number commercial enterprises including TV stations,

Re: drop lircd!

2003-08-14 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Gerd Knorr wrote: It is possible to open /dev/input/eventn and ask for exclusive access via ioctl(). If you do that nobody else will see the events, neither the linux console nor other applications which are reading from the same device. Good. That solves part of the problem. But it's

RE: How to capture frames from all 4 AV inputs on a Bt878 chipset card?(fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Ryan Ayers
More than likely the Windows app is rapidly switching amongst the inputs and displaying them in different regions of the framebuffer. Even then I would expect some jitter, unless the Windows app is doing software frame sync (very possible). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information

Re: Hauppauge WinTV PVR - No Sound

2003-08-14 Thread alsa
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Jason Miller wrote: Does anyone have any idea in what sort of time frame the CX88 driver will be at least of beta quality? there are some strange things in documentation, that are not clear when applied to hardware (that I have, for example). BTW. CX is good in S-Video.

Re: saa7134 stability

2003-08-14 Thread Wieslaw Kierbedz
Uytkownik Jason Miller napisa: Thanks for the response! I know this is slightly off topic, but is 2.6.0-test2 stable enough to use? 2.6.0-test2 has video for linux 2 built in, right? I see that more stable and more performant. It is not only my opinion. For server use it is not enough tested

Hauppauge WinTV PVR - No Sound

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Liguori
Hello, I'm using Redhat 9.0 and I have a Hauppauge Win TV PVR. I cannot get the sound to work. Attached is my modules.conf. What do I need to do? Here's the label on the rectangular casing: WIN TV - NTSC 45231 REV D723 Here are the chipsets on the board, which one is sound? CONEXANT

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2003-08-14 Thread Tucker
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saa7134-20030806 snapshot fails to load

2003-08-14 Thread hermann pitton
Hi, just tried on the 2.4.20-v4l2 with gcc-3.2.2 on RH-9. I get warnings and at the end a unresolved symbol for pci_name. Make output is attached. Hermannmake -C /lib/modules/2.4.20-15v4l2/build SUBDIRS=/root/saa7134-0.2.9-20030806 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/root/linux-2.4.20-15v4l2'

Re: Good USB video

2003-08-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ed Okerson wrote: The Logitech works with the qce-ga driver, but the video is terrible, and Have you loaded the driver with option interpolation=1? It makes the quality much better. it refuses to work with the newer qc-usb driver, but I don't know if that Well, this is very

bttv 0.7.X crashes AMD Duron machines?

2003-08-14 Thread Markku Tavasti
I have tried to set up my computer to capture tv-programs with Hauppage bt878 based card. Everything seems ok, for a while. Then problems start. Programs start disappearing from my screen. Then it gets worse, 'Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address'. And shortly after this I

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread alsa
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ronald Bultje wrote: just the conversion functions and nothing else. And handle gstreamer support with a small wrapper plugin using that library. I'm fine with that too. I'll even write the wrapper if the lib exists, if I have to. :). (I can't test it, though. ;) ).

Re: V4L #defines for Quickcam (was: Re: buggy v4l apps)

2003-08-14 Thread Billy Biggs
Tuukka Toivonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: No, the function is right, I was just reading it wrong. I was referring to the extents. If you're using this MPEG2 conversion function to convert JPEG data to RGB, then you're likely using the wrong conversion

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Billy Biggs
Tuukka Toivonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Gerd Knorr wrote: gstreamer IMHO is overkill just for doing conversions. IMHO it would be better to put that into a small library which has just the conversion functions and nothing else. I don't think so: in a generic plugin

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMHO it would be better to put that into a small library which has just the conversion functions and nothing else. I don't think so: in a generic plugin system, parts of the driver could be moved into userspace plugins. gstreamer IMHO isn't the

Re: [patch] MPlayer support for v4l2

2003-08-14 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
hermann pitton wrote: Hi, this is good news. Updated cvs from the server and the patch cleanly applied. V4l2 was autodetected on my 2.4.20-v4l2. Don't have the issues frbiscani has with the cvs-snapshot on the mplayer-users list. (Is his kernel v4l2 patched?) This issue has been resolved, there

Re: bttv+scsi writing = corrupted frames

2003-08-14 Thread Arne Caspari
Reply to the mail from Tuukka Toivonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's amazing that if the TV card is in one of the two bottommost slots, the image gets into completely crap exactly when the hard disk light is on (when I'm running dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros). The light blinks periodically and the

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:11, Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:39:12PM +0200, Ronald Bultje wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:57, Ville Syrjälä wrote: If anyone wants to write code that has a chance of working with all sourcards alsa-lib is a must. I see no point in

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Gerd Knorr
Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: The waste of memory argument only works if you ignore user space. If the driver doesn't provide multiple buffers, then the application has to. The buffers are still there, they've just moved. You

Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Tuukka, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:35, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Ah, but since it works in parallel with just one mmap buffer, I must ask again, where's the point in providing multiple mmap buffers--except when using multiple CPUs to process multiple buffers at once. Double buffering. It

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