Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-04 Thread Duncan Webb
On 04/05/2008 23:08, Pascal Schirrmann said the following: > Duncan Webb a écrit : >> Seems reasonable as sysfs is not mounted. It does seem a bit odd that >> sysfs has not been mounted. As this is a kernel-user interface. A manual >> mount should sort this out. >> # mkdir /tmp/sysfs >> # mount -

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-04 Thread Pascal Schirrmann
Duncan Webb a écrit : > Seems reasonable as sysfs is not mounted. It does seem a bit odd that > sysfs has not been mounted. As this is a kernel-user interface. A manual > mount should sort this out. > # mkdir /tmp/sysfs > # mount -t sysfs none /tmp/sysfs > > Ok, I was a little astonished by yo

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-04 Thread Duncan Webb
Pascal Schirrmann wrote: > Duncan Webb a écrit : >> I've just committed a new version of the vg helper. This version should >> use two methods to group the video devices together. >> >> This version also runs under just python, at the bottom are some >> examples. You may need to change the permis

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-04 Thread Pascal Schirrmann
Duncan Webb a écrit : > I've just committed a new version of the vg helper. This version should > use two methods to group the video devices together. > > This version also runs under just python, at the bottom are some > examples. You may need to change the permission of the uevent file in > th

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-02 Thread Jonathan Isom
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/05/2008 02:26, Jonathan Isom said the following: > > > >> # python src/helpers/vg.py > > devices:1: ['video0', 'vbi0', 'video1', 'vbi1'] > > devices:2: [] > > devices:3: [] > > > > video0 () > >

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-01 Thread Duncan Webb
On 02/05/2008 02:26, Jonathan Isom said the following: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Duncan Webb wrote: >> > I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. >> > There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. >

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-01 Thread Jonathan Isom
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan Webb wrote: > > I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. > > There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. > > > > In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb wrote: > I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. > There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. > > In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module to scan the video > devices and print out some settings, but can't test this on al

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-05-01 Thread Pascal Schirrmann
Duncan Webb a écrit : > > So there is no problem with the kernel version, is sysfs mounted > somewhere other than /sys and is procfs mounted somewhere other than > /proc? Hi, I'm a little bit far from this computer at the moment, so I cannot be totally affirmative, but I'm quite sure that /sys

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Duncan Webb
On 28/04/2008 19:02, Jonathan Isom said the following: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. >> There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. >> >> In the latest rel-1

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Duncan Webb
On 28/04/2008 21:42, Pascal Schirrmann said the following: > Duncan Webb a écrit : > >>> freevo vg >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/helpers/vg.py", line >>> 6, in >>> os.listdir(d) >>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/s

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Pascal Schirrmann
Duncan Webb a écrit : > Webcam drivers support v4l2 but you need to get the correct driver. A > lot of webcams use the Philips chips and the best v4l2 driver is at: > http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ and http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ > Thanks for that, I didn't know. I just plug the webcam bec

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jeffery wrote: > Duncan Webb wrote: > | AFAIK video4linux is for all video devices, so it should have worked. > | Will you try: > | freevo execute src/tv/v4l2.py > | You will get some errors, it is just the settings that should be printed > | out. > > ahh - got it. For some reason the main

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Duncan Webb
Jonathan Isom wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. >> There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. >> >> In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module to

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Jonathan Isom
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. > There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. > > In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module to scan the video > devices

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Jeffery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan Webb wrote: | AFAIK video4linux is for all video devices, so it should have worked. | Will you try: | freevo execute src/tv/v4l2.py | You will get some errors, it is just the settings that should be printed | out. ahh - got it. For some reason

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-27 Thread Duncan Webb
On 27/04/2008 22:11, schirrms said the following: > Duncan Webb a écrit : >> Thanks Justin, nice to see that it works for ivtv cards. >> >> Duncan >> >> > It works ... and no ! > > On one system, I have an IVTV card, but also a webcam. Webcam drivers support v4l2 but you need to get the correc

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-27 Thread schirrms
Duncan Webb a écrit : > Thanks Justin, nice to see that it works for ivtv cards. > > Duncan > > It works ... and no ! On one system, I have an IVTV card, but also a webcam. Here is the result : -- video0 - video0

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-27 Thread Duncan Webb
Justin Wetherell wrote: > This is for a ivtv card but here ya go... > Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > sudo ./freevo vg > video0 > - > video0 : ivtv0 encoder MPEG > video24 : ivtv0 encoder PCM audio > video32 : ivtv0 enc

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-27 Thread Justin Wetherell
This is for a ivtv card but here ya go... Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) sudo ./freevo vg video0 - video0 : ivtv0 encoder MPEG video24 : ivtv0 encoder PCM audio video32 : ivtv0 encoder YUV vbi0: ivtv0 encoder VBI radi

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-27 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jeffery wrote: > Duncan Webb wrote: > > | What do the /sys/class/video4linux/*/name files contain? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sys/class/video4linux $ cat radio0/name > saa7133[0] radio (Pinnacle PCTV > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sys/class/video4linux $ cat vbi0/name > saa7133[0] vbi (Pinnacle PCTV 3 >

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-26 Thread Andrew Jeffery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan Webb wrote: | What do the /sys/class/video4linux/*/name files contain? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sys/class/video4linux $ cat radio0/name saa7133[0] radio (Pinnacle PCTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sys/class/video4linux $ cat vbi0/name saa7133[0] vbi (Pinnacle

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jeffery wrote: > Duncan Webb wrote: > | I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. > | There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. > | > | In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module to scan the video > | devices and print out some sett

Re: [Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-25 Thread Andrew Jeffery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan Webb wrote: | I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. | There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. | | In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module to scan the video | devices and print

[Freevo-devel] Video Groups Helper

2008-04-24 Thread Duncan Webb
I'm thinking about helping the first time users with configuration. There are two bits that are not so easy to configure, games and TV. In the latest rel-1 svn I've added a helper module to scan the video devices and print out some settings, but can't test this on all video devices. Would someo