Show-stopper for me

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:51, Anne Wilson wrote:
>One of my biggest interests is capturing footage from my analogue
> camcorder and converting it to DVD disks.  I've been working with this
> under FC4 without problems, but I'm falling at the first fence under
> FC6.  I need tvtime, xawtv or similar to act as monitor while capturing
> with mjpegtools.
>
>My capture card is a DC10+, which uses the zoran driver.  Under FC4 the
>requirements were
>
>Modules - zr36060, zr36067, adv7175, saa7110, zoran, 12c-algo-bit,
> 12c-core, videocodec
>
>Video4linux (v4l) installed and running.
>
Humm, the drivers from the mxhaard site in france worked reasonably well if 
the starting syntax can be grokked. However, it turns out that even a $70 
dollar webcam is, photographicly speaking, a POS.  Color is basicly way 
off, with no chance of software corrections as the error is in gamma 
tracking from color to color, and with it plugged into a usb1.1 port, only 
about 6 frames per second.  The only thing I have thats gives a good image 
in real time is my Sony TVR-460, plugged into a firewire port.

>According to yum I have xorg-x11-drv-v4l.i386  installed.  I tried
> modprobe on each of the module listed, and was told that zoran,
> 12c-algo-bit and 12c-core were not found.
>
>*****
>
>Attempting to run tvtime I get this:
>
>tvtime
>Running tvtime 1.0.1.
>Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>Reading configuration from /home/anne/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
>
>    Your capture card driver: zoran [DC10plus[0]/PCI:0000:00:0b.0/2309]
>    does not support studio-quality colour images required by tvtime.
>    This is a hardware limitation of some cards including many
>    low-quality webcams.  Please select a different video device to use
>    with the command line option --device.
>
>    Message from the card was: Invalid argument
>
>
>while the tvtime screen shows
>
>zoran:invalid argument
>Cannot open capture device /dev/video0
>
>*****
>
>I then installed xawtv from atrpms, since I have worked with that in the
> past and have a config file for it.  This is what I saw for xawtv:
>
>xawtv
>This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
>WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
>WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
>         configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>")
>ioctl:
>VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_OVERLAY;fmt.win.w.left=712;fmt.win.w.top=27;fmt.w
>in.w.width=384;fmt.win.w.height=288;fmt.win.field=ANY;fmt.win.chromakey=0
>;fmt.win.clips=0x9b13784;fmt.win.clipcount=0;fmt.win.bitmap=(nil)):
> Invalid argument
>no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
>
>
>I am desperate to solve this, but haven't a clue where to look next.  Any
>ideas, please?
>
>Anne

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