on 04.4.22 0:44 PM, Mich Lanners at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen:
> Hi, > > PlanB maintainer here.... > Cool! > On 21 Apr, this message from dylan echoed through cyberspace: >> i am trying to get video4linux to work on an old powermac, using the >> built-in planB video digitizer... > > Cool! Somebody's stll using it :-) Well, i figure it is just one more reason to keep my good 'ol 8500's around for... > >> i can get webcam to capture frames from the device, but the colors are >> all messed up, and the alignment is a little wrong... >> here is a sample: http://iici.no-ip.org/~dylan/webcam.jpg >> >> ...could this be a PAL/NTSC problem? > > I'd say yes; this could be PlanB configured for PAL and capturing NTSC. > Have you tried xawtv already? Does it produce valid results? It might be > that webcam fails to set the norm; in that case there's a default norm > you can set in planb.h at compile time. > ...turns out that my config file for webcam was not setup correctly... after creating a *good* config file, and changing the norm to ntsc, all was well! quick picture: http://surfdavis.no-ip.com/cam.html > > This could be hasciicam trying an unsupported video format. PlanB is > very limited, especially compared to bttv, to which most capture > programs are geared. > > You can enable debugging in PlanB at compile time to get a kernel log > message when an unsupported format is requested (or you might already > get that; please check dmesg). > thanks for the ideas.... i will play around with the driver next time i compile a kernel... perhaps it would be best to contact the author of hasciicam, and see what he thinks. great work on the planB driver... perhaps someday it will be completely supported? :) thanks, Dylan
