I've had this Hauppauge WinTV card for years. Only used it for a couple 
of months when NetMeeting first came out. Well, recently I broke down 
and purchased a bunch of X10 cameras out of curiousity. I've been trying 
to get the darn thing to work with gspy and xawtv. Neither software will 
show me any video.

I've been playing around with the videodev API's to get info from the 
card. I've tried different things to try to capture frames playing 
around with the settings in gspy. I've had no luck. I think I'm all 
tapped out of ideas and need help.

This is what I'm trying to do. I have my X10 cameras hooked up to my 
Hauppauge card. There's a coaxial connection and RCA connections. I'm 
using the RCA, but only the video. When I try to capture from gspy, I 
only get a snowy picture. What do I need to do to configure the card 
correctly? I've written a little snippet to dump the configuration info 
from my card, here you go:

=====================================================================
/dev/video0 card info:
        name = BT848(Hauppauge old)
        type = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_OVERLAY | 
VID_TYPE_CLIPPING | VID_TYPE_FRAMERAM | VID_TYPE_SCALES |
        channels = 4
        audios = 1
        maxwidth = 768
        maxheight = 480
        minwidth = 48
        minheight = 32
=====================================================================
/dev/video0 channel info:
        channel = -1
        name = Composite-1
        tuners = 0
        type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
        input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
        norm = 2
/dev/video0 channel info:
        channel = 0
        name = Television
        tuners = 1
        type = VID_VC_TUNER | VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x3
        input type = VID_TYPE_TV, 0x1
        norm = 1
/dev/video0 channel info:
        channel = 1
        name = Composite1
        tuners = 0
        type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
        input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
        norm = 2
/dev/video0 channel info:
        channel = 2
        name = S-Video
        tuners = 0
        type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
        input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
        norm = 2
/dev/video0 channel info:
        channel = 3
        name = Composite3
        tuners = 0
        type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
        input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
        norm = 2
Error: unable to get capabilities
=====================================================================
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
        tuner = -1
        name = Television
        range low = 0l
        range high = 4294967295l
        tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT | 
, 0x7
        mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
        signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
        tuner = 0
        name = Television
        range low = 0l
        range high = 4294967295l
        tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT | 
, 0x7
        mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
        signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
        tuner = 1
        name = Television
        range low = 0l
        range high = 4294967295l
        tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT | 
, 0x7
        mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
        signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
        tuner = 2
        name = Television
        range low = 0l
        range high = 4294967295l
        tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT | 
, 0x7
        mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
        signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
        tuner = 3
        name = Television
        range low = 0l
        range high = 4294967295l
        tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT | 
, 0x7
        mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1




I don't know what to do to acquire snapshots from the card when  video 
source is hooked up to the RCA video port. Again, this is an old 
Hauppauge card. Possibly around 8 years old. Any suggestions would be 
appreciated.


Thanks in advance!
-rob



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