Hey,
I am not sure where to file pdp related bugs, so I am reporting some issues I face to you. Maybe someone can help me out?
System info: Debian Kernel 2.6 on x86 with pwc/pwcx modules enabled, pd0.37-1 tarball, latest pdp tarball from your website, Philips 740 webcam. I am basically new to pd.
Problems:
Using pdp_v4l connected to a xv sink, vl4 device open succeeds, but
* with a framerate of 27(!)fps. * the captured input is rendered greyscale instead of in color and with extremely overloaded brightness level. * display gets interrupted by a 100ms black gap every second or so - guess thats related to the 27fps? I get this distortion/gap-jitter combination even with metro settings ranging from 10 to 300. After shutting down pd and opening the cam again with camstream I _still_ see the gaps, then by resetting cam-settings I get my cristal clear colored 25fps back. Consequently I disabled direct pwc-support in pdp and recompiled, without luck
- pdp_v4l still seems to change pwc specific cam-settings. The PDP readme
mentiones included "special" pwc-support. What does that mean/do? And how can I disable that except of the configure --disable-pwc option? The cam runs flawlessly in every other v4l compiant application on my system (camstream, gstreamer, mp4live). * sending a "close" message to pdp_v4l doesn't release it's device. * sending pdp_v4l a "type" msg yields a "no method for 'type'" warning and does basically nothing.
Before I run to the next store to get me another cam, is there a way to resolve (at least) the image distortion and "black-gaps interruption"-sync issues? Or is there someone around doing reliable v4l-capturing and could give me some hints on how to setup.
Best Regards, Thomas Comiotto