Camera image problem

mrd · Post by **mrd** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:03 pm

I've loaded up the latest live CD and it all seems fine, but I can't get a reasonable image out of my camera (PictureTel PTZ-4N on an Osprey 210 Capture card). It works great under Knopix v3.7 with xwatv but I can't seem to get a decent image in either xwatv or zoneminder with the live CD version installed. I can only see a very faint image with yuyv or yuv422 as the palette and nothing with all others. I can't get any image with the xwatv installed from the Live CD.

Help if you can...

Thanks,
MRD

mrd · Post by **mrd** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:04 pm

A little more information:

[user user]$ xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.93, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.7-2.tmb.6mdk)
looking for available devices
port 61-61 [ -xvport 61 ]
type : Xvideo, video overlay
name : video4linux

port 62-62
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : Matrox G-Series Backend Scaler

/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (Osprey 210/220)
flags: overlay capture tuner

mrd · Post by **mrd** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:15 pm

Interestingly, the output is different under the knopix OS.

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.27)
looking for available devices
port 69-69
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : Matrox G-Series Backend Scaler

/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l
name : bttv video
flags: overlay capture