SORRY ABOUT ALL CAPS; I'M USING MY DROID PHONE, AND IT DOES THIS FOR SOME REASON...
OK, I GOT MY KODICOM 4400R CARD INSTALLED, AND RECOGNIZED. BUT ZM CAN'T DISPLAY ANY VIDEO FROM ANY PORT. SO FOLLOWING FORUM ADVICE, I TRIED FFMPEG DIRECTLY. IT RECORED MY COLOR CAMERA AS B&W, AND HORRIBLE QUALITY. I LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, AND JUST ON A WHIM, GOT OUT A VIDEO GENERATOR AND GENERATED PAL COLORBARS. THEY RECORDED PERFECTLY IN FFMPEG! BUT WHY IS MY KODICOM DISPLAYING PAL ONLY? ALL MY CAMERAS ARE NTSC, AND NOT ONE IS PAL. ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS? THE MANUAL MAKES NO MENTION OF PAL OR NTSC HARDWARE SWITCHES. AND UBUNTU ONLY CONTROLS THE DETECTION, NOT OPERATION, RIGHT? ALSO, ALL 4 PORTS SHOW THE SAME IMAGE IN FFMPEG. STILL CAN'T GET ANYTHING IN ZM YET. PLEASE POINT
ME SOMEWHERE! I'M SO LOST AT THIS POINT, MY BRAIN IS FRAZZLED!
kodicom 4400 help, please!
Re: kodicom 4400 help, please!
On the monitor general tab select local as a source type. On the monitor source tab set path to /dev/video0, set device channel to 0, set device format to ntsc, set capture palette to bgr24, set width and height to 320*240 and save. Now go to options::config and untick V4L_MULTI_BUFFER and set CAPTURES_PER_FRAME to a value of 2 and save. Should get you going anyway.
Both the wiki and forums have a lot of information on your card
Both the wiki and forums have a lot of information on your card
Re: kodicom 4400 help, please!
Thanks! I'll Play With Those Settings. What Line Command Should I be Typing For Ffmpeg To Record Raw Ntsc From The Video Card? I'm Just Curious If I'm Maybe Not Typing The Right Thing?
Again, Sorry For The Capitalization Weirdness! It Must Be Something With DroId.
Have A Great Holiday!
Again, Sorry For The Capitalization Weirdness! It Must Be Something With DroId.
Have A Great Holiday!
Re: kodicom 4400 help, please!
With this card there is no need to use ffmpeg at all.
Re: kodicom 4400 help, please!
Thanks for the help! Everything you said worked to get me started. Tweaking the colors was a problem. At a minimum, I told it the wrong color scheme. Starting at rock bottom gray and then upgrading to color was the way to do it! Thanks again!
I found the biggest help was in the bttv.conf file I had to create. Using the settings from the wikki didn't work for me. Using another poster's settings I found on here did, though. If it helps someone else, try one of these (copied from the forums or wiki):
edit your modprobe.conf (on modern linux distributions, the options below should be placed in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf) to include
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133
That didn't work for me. This did, however:
edit your modprobe.conf (on modern linux distributions, the options below should be placed in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf) to include
options bttv card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85 radio=-1 tuner=4 pll=0
A system rebbot is required.
Another thing that helped was installing VLC media player. It allowed me to quickly play with the video ports to see which one was which.
Another thing that may help is that the BNC jack closest to the RCA jack is video 1 channel 0. That makes the monitor settings:
[GENERAL TAB]
Source type: local
Function: Monitor
[SOURCE TAB]
Device Path: /dev/video1
Video for Linux version 2
Device Channel 0
NTSC (my camera is American)
Capture Pallette: *YUV422P
Target Colorspace: 24 bit color
320
240
Everything else was default. I noticed that if you choose a capture palette that is not correct, the colors are off, and if the settings are way off, the camera shows as red text in the ZM console. and no image comes in.
I know these are basics, but to a beginner, this hopefully gives the next person a head start!
PS, fellow newbies: search the forums for a puppet installer. It saves you nights of headaches! Clean install a fesh Ubuntu, and type the 3 lines of commands. BAM! done.
I found the biggest help was in the bttv.conf file I had to create. Using the settings from the wikki didn't work for me. Using another poster's settings I found on here did, though. If it helps someone else, try one of these (copied from the forums or wiki):
edit your modprobe.conf (on modern linux distributions, the options below should be placed in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf) to include
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133
That didn't work for me. This did, however:
edit your modprobe.conf (on modern linux distributions, the options below should be placed in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf) to include
options bttv card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85 radio=-1 tuner=4 pll=0
A system rebbot is required.
Another thing that helped was installing VLC media player. It allowed me to quickly play with the video ports to see which one was which.
Another thing that may help is that the BNC jack closest to the RCA jack is video 1 channel 0. That makes the monitor settings:
[GENERAL TAB]
Source type: local
Function: Monitor
[SOURCE TAB]
Device Path: /dev/video1
Video for Linux version 2
Device Channel 0
NTSC (my camera is American)
Capture Pallette: *YUV422P
Target Colorspace: 24 bit color
320
240
Everything else was default. I noticed that if you choose a capture palette that is not correct, the colors are off, and if the settings are way off, the camera shows as red text in the ZM console. and no image comes in.
I know these are basics, but to a beginner, this hopefully gives the next person a head start!
PS, fellow newbies: search the forums for a puppet installer. It saves you nights of headaches! Clean install a fesh Ubuntu, and type the 3 lines of commands. BAM! done.