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