Re: What are "Other" video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Thu 26 September 2013 13:47:26 Steve Cookson wrote: > On 26/09/2013 08:32, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Typically the video standard needs to be correct (e.g. PAL vs NTSC), > > and the video format produced by the video capture card must be > > supported by the application. > > > > Ask them to r

Re: What are "Other" video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Cookson
On 26/09/2013 08:32, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Typically the video standard needs to be correct (e.g. PAL vs NTSC), > and the video format produced by the video capture card must be > supported by the application. > > Ask them to run 'v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --all', that gives a good > overview of the

Re: What are "Other" video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Thu 26 September 2013 13:04:00 Steve Cookson wrote: > Hi All, > > Occasionally I see emails suggesting that a video capture card has not > been configured properly on Linux and that the problems the questioner > is experiencing is down to this. > > I have no idea what this means. Without kn

What are "Other" video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi All, Occasionally I see emails suggesting that a video capture card has not been configured properly on Linux and that the problems the questioner is experiencing is down to this. I have no idea what this means. I usually use a gstreamer command like: gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video