Hello, I'm trying use a WinTV USB adaptor which uses the usbvision driver to capture the output of a video camera for streaming across the web, the idea being that there is a reliable local recording, even in the event of a computer crash, while allowing the remote viewers to see the proceedings live without needing to have two separate cameras. Unfortunately there is a catch, i'm using flash to do the broadcast and flash (in common with a lot of other software of this type) doesn't have the ability to set the input type and picture format, so you are stuck with the default, which is the rf-tuner. I have managed to make my own bodged driver which disables the rf-input so that I can get a picture via s-video, but it is stubbornly stuck in black and white, which i'm assuming is some kind of colour format problem. If I use KDETV to look at the picture then everything comes through in colour, so this would seem to be a problem with the defaults built into the module being incorrect for my circumstances. Rather than carrying on with my bodged driver (this is the first time I have ever attempted to modify a C programme), what would be really great is away to achieve one of the following : 1) Set the default input, tv standard and pixel format using module parameters in modprobe.conf 2) Get the driver to 'remember' it's current settings when switching between applications. The windows driver for these devices does this, so all I have to do under windows is start up WinTV, make sure I have a good picture, close it down again and then start up the video broadcast in flash. 3) A way to change the device settings using a 3rd party app even when the main video device is in use and can't be accessed. I've tried using v4lctl to set the parameters before starting a capture, but if the flash capture is active, then I (unsurprisingly) get device in use errors. If I use v4lctl before starting flash, then the settings don't stick. The capture box becomes active briefly (there is a red light on the box which indicates this), presumably accepts the setting and is then powered down again, causing the new setting to be immediately forgotten. Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated. Tim W -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS Euromotor Autotrain LLP 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 EuroMotor-AutoTrain is a company registered in the UK, Registration number: OC317070. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
