On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:51, Anne Wilson wrote: >One of my biggest interests is capturing footage from my analogue > camcorder and converting it to DVD disks. I've been working with this > under FC4 without problems, but I'm falling at the first fence under > FC6. I need tvtime, xawtv or similar to act as monitor while capturing > with mjpegtools. > >My capture card is a DC10+, which uses the zoran driver. Under FC4 the >requirements were > >Modules - zr36060, zr36067, adv7175, saa7110, zoran, 12c-algo-bit, > 12c-core, videocodec > >Video4linux (v4l) installed and running. > Humm, the drivers from the mxhaard site in france worked reasonably well if the starting syntax can be grokked. However, it turns out that even a $70 dollar webcam is, photographicly speaking, a POS. Color is basicly way off, with no chance of software corrections as the error is in gamma tracking from color to color, and with it plugged into a usb1.1 port, only about 6 frames per second. The only thing I have thats gives a good image in real time is my Sony TVR-460, plugged into a firewire port. >According to yum I have xorg-x11-drv-v4l.i386 installed. I tried > modprobe on each of the module listed, and was told that zoran, > 12c-algo-bit and 12c-core were not found. > >***** > >Attempting to run tvtime I get this: > >tvtime >Running tvtime 1.0.1. >Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml >Reading configuration from /home/anne/.tvtime/tvtime.xml >videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument > > Your capture card driver: zoran [DC10plus[0]/PCI:0000:00:0b.0/2309] > does not support studio-quality colour images required by tvtime. > This is a hardware limitation of some cards including many > low-quality webcams. Please select a different video device to use > with the command line option --device. > > Message from the card was: Invalid argument > > >while the tvtime screen shows > >zoran:invalid argument >Cannot open capture device /dev/video0 > >***** > >I then installed xawtv from atrpms, since I have worked with that in the > past and have a config file for it. This is what I saw for xawtv: > >xawtv >This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) >WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support. >WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual > configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>") >ioctl: >VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_OVERLAY;fmt.win.w.left=712;fmt.win.w.top=27;fmt.w >in.w.width=384;fmt.win.w.height=288;fmt.win.field=ANY;fmt.win.chromakey=0 >;fmt.win.clips=0x9b13784;fmt.win.clipcount=0;fmt.win.bitmap=(nil)): > Invalid argument >no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-) > > >I am desperate to solve this, but haven't a clue where to look next. Any >ideas, please? > >Anne -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list