Quoting Ola Theander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi Hans
>
> I did find the /dev/video32, just after I mailed you (as usual). I found a
> lot of sample code mplayer switches, similar to "mplayer -demuxer rawvideo
> -rawvideo pal:yv12" to process raw YUV but so far it looks terrible. It's
> certainly something moving on the screen but it looks more or less like a
> blur. It's not noise like, it's have more "structure", i.e. it's more like
> colored, horizontal, jagged bars. I suspect that it might have something to
> do with that ivtv seems to default to interlaced mode. I tried to change it
> to progressive using "ivtvctl --set-yuv-mode=1,576" or "ivtvctl
> --set-yuv-mode=1". Ivtvctrl responds with OK but the change doesn't seem to
> stick because if I do "ioctrl --get-yuv-mode" it's right back to interlaced.

Just curious, does your application require the MPEG encoder or will 
you always
be doing encoding of raw video yourself with low latency being your critical
need?

If you have no need for the MPEG functionality and need reliable low latency
video capture, you would probably be better off with a bt8x8 or cx88 based
capture card - They work INCREDIBLY well if you don't need hardware MPEG
encoding and have very low latency.  (Suitable for playing console games, low
latency videoconferencing, etc.)  The PVR-150 wasn't really designed to 
provide
raw YUV - it happens to do so but it is essentially a design afterthought that
has low priority with both Hauppauge's engineers and most of the ivtv 
people. Cards that use the bttv or cx88 drivers, on the other hand, do 
nothing but raw
video capture.

bttv and cx88 cards also happen to be significantly cheaper - I've heard of
people getting tunerless cx88-based boards for $20-30 USD.  Too late for your
current system, but if you are planning multiple systems with capture boards
down the line it could make a big difference.


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