Bug 224138 - Problems with video capture cards.
Summary: Problems with video capture cards.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xawtv
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-01-24 12:19 UTC by Paul van de Velde
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-01-25 10:11:51 UTC
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Description Paul van de Velde 2007-01-24 12:19:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Video capture card not working with PV-149.
But I have seen other video capture cards also reported as not working.
See for this: http://www.mail-archive.com/mjpeg-
users.net/msg07044.html 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
[root@localhost dev]# xawtv -hwscan 
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) 
looking for available devices 
/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ] 
type : v4l2 
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150) 
flags: overlay capture 

/dev/video1: OK [ -device /dev/video1 ] 
type : v4l2 
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150) 
flags: overlay capture 

/dev/video2: OK [ -device /dev/video2 ] 
type : v4l2 
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150) 
flags: overlay capture 

/dev/video3: OK [ -device /dev/video3 ] 
type : v4l2 
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150) 
flags: overlay capture 

But getting: 
[root@localhost dev]# xawtv -device /dev/video0 
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) 
WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support. 
WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual 
configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>") 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument 
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument
  
XAWTV does not work.

After some investigations I found:

It seems to be a FC6 issue. You have to find the framebuffer address 
under /dev/log/Xorg.0.log. Do a search for framebuffer and you will find the 
address. 

The address is 0xF000 0000. One can set it n XAWTV with the command: 
v4l-conf -a 0xF0000000. 

Now the question is how to do this adaptation for ZoneMinder? 
This last step I could not find out and for this reason I would like to have the
bug fixed. As if the Framebuffer address is correctly set the last application 
will also work.

Actual results:
XAWTV not working.


Expected results:
XAWTV should start up correctly

Additional info:

Comment 1 Than Ngo 2007-01-25 10:11:51 UTC
xawtv is not included in FC6 and Extras. You should report the problem
to the Autor please. Thanks


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