Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Neuer User
Hello First of all, I don't know, if this is the right mailing list. I haven't found any other. The video4linux list seems to be abandoned. I am testing a Commell MPX-885 mini-pcie card, which is based on a cx23885 chip. There is initial support in the linux kernel for this card:

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Neuer User auslands...@gmx.de wrote: Hello First of all, I don't know, if this is the right mailing list. I haven't found any other. The video4linux list seems to be abandoned. I am testing a Commell MPX-885 mini-pcie card, which is based on a cx23885 chip.

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Neuer User
Hello David Thanks for taking the time to help. I had looked through the linux-media GIT tree for any commits that have cx23885 in the description. The last ones I found were from mid 2011. That was probably why I did not try any newer kernels. Stupid me. Should have tried anyway. I can

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Neuer User auslands...@gmx.de wrote: I had looked through the linux-media GIT tree for any commits that have cx23885 in the description. The last ones I found were from mid 2011. Yeah, the changes were actually made to the cx25840 driver, which is used/shared

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Neuer User
Am 13.11.2012 18:07, schrieb Devin Heitmueller: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Neuer User auslands...@gmx.de wrote: The minor ones (card not autodetected, and black border on the left side) can probably be dealt with, e.g. in postprocessing. Or is there a chance to fix these in the driver?

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Neuer User auslands...@gmx.de wrote: The HSYNC problem is bigger than I thought. I compared the captured image with an image from another (USB) video digitizer and it is obvious that the image has lost about 10-20% on the right side and on the bottom. Can

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Neuer User
Am 13.11.2012 19:54, schrieb Devin Heitmueller: Almost certainly just changes needed for the cx25840 driver. These are all basic issues with the video decoder core. Google around - the cx25840 datasheet is readily available. You have to watch out though because there are some subtle

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Neuer User auslands...@gmx.de wrote: Thanks, you probably hinted me into the right direction. I use mplayer to play the video stream and mplayer does indeed recognize a 640x480 video stream. I am not using any crop settings for these tests. But maybe it is

Re: Color problem with MPX-885 card (cx23885)

2012-11-13 Thread Neuer User
Am 13.11.2012 20:12, schrieb Devin Heitmueller: Just to be clear, I wasn't intending to suggest that you were using any of the actual V4L2 cropping features. I'm just saying that if the video scaler were broken, it's possible that the frames are *effectively* being cropped at 640x480.