Hey Johannes,
Ok, so my video capture cards arrived today. They are leadtek winfast tv2000 xp expert cards. They are found by my 2.6.8 kernel and I can see video fine using xawtv. Oh and this kernel seems to be creating v4l2 devices, rather than v4l... is v4l2 backwards compatible?
All the good news, onto the bad...
tested on both gem 0.90 and gem CVS I am unable to see video.
A simple pix_video patch loads fine but when I press "create, 1" to the gemwin I just get a black gem-window and PD freezes, no crash, no high cpu usage, the GUI just sits there unresponsive (as if the pd engine has crashed).
In gem CVS I get this in the console when opening the patch:
video4linux ieee1394 for linux
Then I hit render and I get:
pix_videoNEW: starting transfer GEM: pix_video: Opened video connection F
Then PD is frozen.
In Gem 0.90 I get this message when opening the patch:
video4linux
Then I hit render and I get:
pix_videoNEW: starting transfer cap: name Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert type 7 channels 3 maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 48 minh 32
picture: brightness 32896 depth 26222 palette 4
channel 0 name Television type 1 flags 1
channel 1 name Composite1 type 2 flags 0
channel 2 name S-Video type 2 flags 0
setting to channel 1 buffer size 1867776, frames 8, offset 0 233472
wanted format is 0x1908 setting cmcapture to 64x64 5 frame 0 0, format 5, width 64, height 64
GEM: pix_video: Opened video connection F vmmap 8371BA8
Then the same PD freeze happens.
As a reminder this is debian/sarge running demudi packages and kernel 2.6.8 PD 0.38-4
Any ideas Johannes?
Sometimes I wish PD would crash so at least I can see what is happening!
I'm starting to feel uneasy about my plan to use linux for this installation for "stability" and freedom. *sigh*
I'd love to make it work...
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