Hello, I would like to be able to capture video from a camera connected to the composite video input of an OnAir Creator. I have tried motion, mplayer, kaffeine, mythtv, xawtv and none have worked so far. Hopefully it's something trivial that I'm doing wrong. I am using an up to date Debian Lenny distribution. Months (or even 1+ years) ago, I gave the OnAir Creator a try and had issues with having to hunt down the firmware file. Since I don't get firmware error messages, I presume this issue is no longer relevant, or is it? My previous experience was with Etch, Lenny was installed from scratch, so if the firmware didn't get installed automatically, it isn't in place. This is the kernel used: Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian 2.6.26-21lenny4) (dannf@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 9 17:35:51 UTC 2010 It seems the problem is that an ioctl() call is failing. Is this a case of Lenny being too old or is there a more fundamental problem? Do I need to send something to the Creator to get it to start sending? or is this automatic when the applications start? It would be nice to use the Creator inputs (composite for now, but if I could get it to work the S-video input would be even better) for digitizing old analog video tapes, essentially making a video-capture device. o Motion "motion" would be the ideal application. I have it properly configured and it works with usb web cams, but the quality of the picture is horrible. I have an old NTSC video conferencing camera that has a much better picture, but motion doesn't seem to be able to deal with the OnAir Creator: [1] cap.driver: "pvrusb2" [1] cap.card: "OnAir Creator Hybrid USB tuner" [1] cap.bus_info: "usb 4-3 address 11" [1] cap.capabilities=0x01070011 [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE [1] - VBI_CAPTURE [1] - TUNER [1] - AUDIO [1] - READWRITE [1] VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY: Numerical result out of range [1] Supported palettes: [1] 0: [1] Unable to find a compatible palette format. [1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map [1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated! [1] Motion only supports mmap. [1] Capture error calling vid_start [1] Thread finishing... Is there anything that can be done about this? or is "motion" a lost cause? o Mplayer $ mplayer -tv input=1:normid=16 tv:// MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing tv://. TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> comment: first try, more to come ;-) Selected device: OnAir Creator Hybrid USB tuner Tuner cap: Tuner rxs: Capabilites: video capture VBI capture device tuner audio read/write supported norms: 0 = PAL-B/G; 1 = PAL-D/K; 2 = SECAM-B/G; 3 = SECAM-D/K; 4 = PAL-B; 5 = PAL-B1; 6 = PAL-G; 7 = PAL-H; 8 = PAL-I; 9 = PAL-D; 10 = PAL-D1; 11 = PAL-K; 12 = PAL-M; 13 = PAL-N; 14 = PAL-Nc; 15 = PAL-60; 16 = NTSC-M; 17 = NTSC-Mj; 18 = NTSC-443; 19 = NTSC-Mk; 20 = SECAM-B; 21 = SECAM-D; 22 = SECAM-G; 23 = SECAM-H; 24 = SECAM-K; 25 = SECAM-K1; 26 = SECAM-L; 27 = SECAM-LC; inputs: 0 = television; 1 = composite; 2 = s-video; Current input: 1 Current format: unknown (0x0) v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO v4l2: ioctl request buffers failed: Invalid argument v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. Exiting... (End of file) So in this case, with the input=1 option, it seems that at least I'm getting to the correct input, but overall it also fails. Can mplayer be given other options to make it work? or is this also a lost cause? I have tried with all the NTSC norms: same result. o Kaffeine and MythTV In those two apps, I can't find where to configure it to use the composite input. Plus, they are way too much for what I need, but if I could use MythTV with zone minder as has been mentioned in the MythTV list, it would do nicely. Unfortunately, zone minder doesn't seem to be in Lenny. Months (years?) ago, I did manage to get MythTV to work with analog signals but the reception was horrible so I gave up. Watching TV is not a high priority and I never installed the amplified roof antenna. I never figured out how to select the composite or S-video inputs from within MythTV. o xawtv xawtv doesn't have a norm for NTSC (only PAL and SECAM) so even though I can select the composite input: no picture. It also says: v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct v4l2: read: rc=262144/size=442368 So, what else can I try? Any hints welcome. Thanks. A. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
