[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] reworked video capture - testers needed

[Jindrich Makovicka]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:56:38AM +0200, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > so here I'd use "mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:input=0" .. not
> > input=television
> > like the documentation suggests.
> > 
> ok, but makes no change. note that input=0 is autodetected by mplayer
> if I don't specify it.
> 
> > Also I noticed it seems to matter a great deal in which order you
> > have the
> > options for -tv .. if you have them in the order the docs list them
> > like
> > 
> options order shouldn't matter ... or there is a problem.
> currently I use:
> mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:norm=secam:input=0.

Yes, there's really a problem. First, current version of tvi_v4l really
didn't set the norm, at least on my card. Second, tv.c tried to set
resolutions before setting the norm, and 3) the norm numbers were treated
wrong - mplayer and v4l use their own constants for norms, which, (surprise
surprise) are different.

I already fixed it locally and I'll probably send a fixed patch tomorrow.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka