On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 06:35, William Sherman -Visualization wrote: > Thanks for the help. I have a couple followup questions:
I'll try to help. ;-). > > > to the release of mjpegtools 1.6.2? And then to the question of when > > > 1.6.2 might be released. > > I might just add it to the HEAD branch, which means it wouldn't go into > > 1.6.2, but into 1.7.x. I can send you the patch or a patched RPM or a > > patched yuv2lav or so if you want to, though. > Yes, either of those options would be great. Would the patch be against > 1.6.2 or 1.6.1? 1.6.1. You'll find it attached. It's by Steve Boswell (actually, he has CVS access to so he could commit it too... Hmm...) > Yes, LVS looks like it would be quite helpful, but I haven't had > much luck getting it to read & playback my movie files. The best > I could do was a file converted from dv2 to mjpeg using dv2jpg, > but that would only play the sound, and the sliding time bar would > remain all the way to the right (this is under the "Playback Video" > tab). The other problem with this method is that dv2jpg reduces > the size of the video to 1/4 size. [..] > The real surprise is that lavplay plays the file fine, but > LVS doesn't. In fact, LVS reports that lavplay returns > two errors: > "Lavplay stopped and gave the following error: > [lavplay] Error reading video frame: avilib - Error reading > from AVI file - Bad address" > then: > "Lavplay stopped and gave the following error: > [lavplay] Error requesting buffers: Invalid argument" Hm... the third tab page (playback) is for viewing files on the hardware output of the card. Clearly, something goes wrong here. Does 'dmesg' show anything relevant for the LML33 card? You can use the second tab page to view files on software playback (editing). > Because it also complains about the v4l stuff when I run "studio" > I made sure the v4l drivers were installed (both for my LML33 > and for my bttv device -- but not at the same time). I got the > same error for both. > > Here is what I get when I first run "studio": > "Guessing port..... No suitable video4linux port found, \ > please supply one by using the "-p <num>" switch. Use the \ > "-t" switch to see the list of ports available on your computer. > If you cannot find a video4linux device, you probably need \ > to enable the Xvideo extension in your X-server" > > and it says this twice. I have a working v4l device at /dev/video0, > which is what is set in the preferences, but that doesn't seem > to help. Again, I'm not sure whether this is related to my > inability to play lav file in LVS. Add 'Load "v4l"' to the modules section of XF86Config-4 and restart X. Lots of people don't have that. ;-). Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Video/Multimedia developer
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