On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:29:42PM +0200, C. Bassa wrote: > Hi Ezequiel and Andrew, > > Andrew replied to my request on his easycap forum, so I'll answer you both here. > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ezequiel Garcia > <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you have any chance to test a v3.11 or later kernel, please report > > let me know if this is your problem or there's something new going on. > > I'm running Xubuntu 13.10 live and stk1160 recognizes the device and > cheese and ffmpeg show the video. Unfortunately the frames are garbled > as if the size of the frames is wrong. Do you know of this problem and > a possible fix for it? > Hm, easycap and stk1160 are completely different drivers. So any parameters you were using might need some re-check. Could you try mplayer and post your command line and your results? Do you see an *all* green frame or just a garbled frame? Can you upload a snapshot somewhere? > > Also, if you can crack open (carefully) your easycap and check the > > encoder is gm7113 then that confirms you need either a newer kernel > > or request Ubuntu people to backport the fix (it's really very easy). > > Yes, it indeed uses the gm7113 encoder, so the new kernel is necessary. > > Would it be possible, or at all advisable, to try to compile the > easycap driver from Ubuntu 12.04 on the newer kernels? > I guess you can try to build easycap and see if it works. If you've been using it all this time without problems, then you can keep on using it. -- Ezequiel García, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- 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
