Re: usb/xawtv help needed (helloooo Skippy!?!)

2002-04-28 Thread Net Llama!
Keith (or anyone else who's played with video-capture stuff under Linux), I've got linux-video-studio compiled, and running, however it doesn't want to cooperate with my camera. I see a worthless lavrec error that says Invalid option and nothing more. My goal right now is to find an app that

Re: usb/xawtv help needed (helloooo Skippy!?!)

2002-04-28 Thread Tim Wunder
This showed up today on apps.kde.com (I know), http://apps.kde.com/nf/2/info/vid/5779 It's qt3-based, not really KDE-based. It's gotten good reviews. I have no experience with it, web cams, or USB. I'm just throwin' it out ther cuz you asked... Tim On Sunday 28 April 2002 06:53 pm, Net Llama!

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-23 Thread Net Llama!
Thanks Keith. Actually, i've made some progress. I'm now able to create AVI movies from the live camera stream, however they don't seem to have any sound (just a lot of white noise). I'm actually using 'streamer' which comes with xawtv (surprisingly, since xawtv seems to refuse to record AVI

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Joel Hammer
I have no idea how many of my comments are relevant to your webcam problem but you did say anybody. I have a video capture card. I have the same /dev/video0 device and a videodev module loaded. I am using kwintv, not xawtv, but xawtv seems to need the bttv driver, which you don't list with

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Net Llama!
Actually, Joel, i finally got the camera working last night at 1AM. For anyone else's benefit (i'll writeup a SxS eventually with alot more details), here's what i had to do to get this Philips 690 functional: 1) Build 2.4.18 from source with video4linux (v4l) module *AND* philips-web-cam

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just did some test with my notebook. My cam is a Vesta Pro (PCVC680K). For a fresh COL 3.1.1 install you have to: Get the pwcx-i386 module (http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/release.html#pwcx) and put it in /lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/drivers/usb

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Net Llama!
Federico Voges wrote: Hi, Just did some test with my notebook. My cam is a Vesta Pro (PCVC680K). For a fresh COL 3.1.1 install you have to: This isn't a fresh COL-anything install. Get the pwcx-i386 module (http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/release.html#pwcx) I already did that. and

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Yes I can get JPEG and AVI. Avi using the following settings: Module: MS AVI (obviously) Video format: JPEG (JFIF) FPS: 15 Video size: 320x240 I've tried all the other video formats, but got error [init]. The console output is: No way to get:

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:44, you wrote: Ahh, this is where I am at the moment, so maybe I can return the favour. I have been using a pinnacle Rave pro and started with Streamer that comes with Xawtv, rapidly gave this the flick as its VERY limitted and am now using the mjpegtools lavrec to

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Net Llama!
Federico Voges wrote: Yes I can get JPEG and AVI. Avi using the following settings: Module: MS AVI (obviously) Is that a kernel module? Where are you getting it? Video format: JPEG (JFIF) FPS: 15 Video size: 320x240 I've tried all the other video formats, but got error [init]. The

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-20 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Stupid question: have you installed the PWCX module?? Without it you won't be able to use the bigger video sizes at faster fps and it (pwc module) will switch down silently to lower resolutions. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:23:25 -0700, Net Llama!

usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-19 Thread Net Llama!
Actually, i think i've made some progress. The problem i'm running into now is when i attempt to run xawtv, i see the following errors: v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device no video grabber device available [root@hal src]# ls -l /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Nov 10

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-19 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Have you downloaded the latest version?? The one shipped with COL 3.1.1 doesn't work. Bye. On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:19:08 -0700, Net Llama! wrote: Actually, i think i've made some progress. The problem i'm running into now is when i attempt

Re: usb/xawtv help needed

2002-04-19 Thread Net Llama!
I'm not using the one that came from Caldera. I'm using 3.73 (the latest is 3.74). Federico Voges wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Have you downloaded the latest version?? The one shipped with COL 3.1.1 doesn't work. Bye. On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:19:08