-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 Aug 2004 05:52, you wrote: > Hallo > > > After a change to hardware a lot of things were affected and I ended up > > having to do a new install. You may recall that I have a DV10+ and am > > working with an NVidia card. I have not yet reinstalled LVS. I tried to > > view a previously recorded avi, but hit problems: > > Does you Nvidia card have something like at video out/in ? > Which is activated too ? > I don't think that is the problem - though it may have been in the old install. At the moment v4l only seems to be loaded if I hot-plug my webcam. It's almost as though the zoran driver wasn't loading, but lsmod includes zr36060, videocodec and v4l2-common. However, I think in the past I had more modules loaded that referred to zr36060?
> > glav -p C /Data/mulan.avi > > ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error opening /dev/video: No such file or > > directory ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error getting video parameters: Bad file > > descriptor ++: lavtools version 1.6.1.93 > > > > Sure enough, my video0 had disappeared. I found that I had to plug in my > > webcam to get it back. I then checked the perms on /dev/video, > > /dev/video0 and /dev/v4l/video. I then tried again: > > > > glav -p H /Data/mulan.avi > > ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error requesting buffers: Invalid argument > > ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error reading video frame: avilib - Error reading > > from AVI file - Bad address > > ++: lavtools version 1.6.1.93 > > > > I tried launching xawtv. I got a message that it couldn't find any tv > > card. I then closed it. Nothing changed. I did check with another file, > > just in case there was a corruption, but that was the same. > > > > I've tried everything I can think of, but I still keep getting that 'Bad > > address' message. What's causing it, please? > > Do you have the device file /dev/video ? Usually /dev/video is a link to > /dev/video0. Maybe that link points to some other device, and you have > to change it. > /dev/video and /dev/video0 both point to /dev/v4l/video0, but that will be my webcam. No other video device is showing. > How many video devices do you have when you start lvs with -t ? > If you don't have LVS installed yet you can also take a look at the > first line of output from: v4l-info /dev/video > you should get something similair like that: > ### v4l2 device info [/dev/video0] ### > general info > VIDIOC_QUERYCAP > driver : "zoran" > card : "DC30plus[0]" > [....] > I haven't installed it yet - there seemed no point until I get a basic setup. > You might want to try some other devices like /dev/video0 or /dev/video1 > Depending on wich device your DC10 really is you have to set the > LAV_VIDEO_DEV env variable. > Once I have managed to get the DC10+ recognised as a device I may need some instruction on how to do that. > I'm not soure if unplugging changes the device names. I think you have > to reload the kernel drivers to ge a different device name. > Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBEfoekFAvMr/nNX8RAkQ2AJwL0YlWI1yXc1cxCancVn9ff0HBxwCfTiH7 KVCMxvYFcLaPQhB0q/7MOi8= =cidg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
