> The second option is writing to real media files, using realproducer
> using the v4l plugin for having a live feed. It actually works quite
> well, I was sufficiently impressed, however it does have a problem,
> it only seems to record in B&W, and other strange things happen, like
> sometimes there is no video recorded (so it seems), or it is recorded
> off-center, or only a few lines at the top of the screen are recorded.
> Its like it is not configuring the capture card correctly, is there
> some utility that I should be using in conjunction with real producer
> (or other v4l software) to setup the card before it uses it ?
The designers of realproducer negleted to realise that outside
the US, people tend to use PAL or SECAM video, and made the
encoder hard-coded to set the video device to NTSC. Hence colours
and geometry are screwed.
The fix is to hack the bttv code to hard set the driver to PAL (or
SECAM). Look in bttv.c, somewhere around line 1760, and in
the 'case VIDIOCSCHAN', set v.norm to VIDEO_MODE_PAL (or SECAM).
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