[GEM-dev] [pix_video] not working with usbtv driver/Easycap capture card

[Antonio Roberts]

> I bought those while searching for cards with the stk1160. in fact, i had a
> similar problem with vendors, claiming they use the original easycap
> chipset, but using the usbtv instead. (i bought sth like 5 different
> devices, all of them not working)
> so: if conrad electronic did not change anything in the br116 cards within
> the last 3months, those should be working.
Thanks for the advice. I've ordered some and hopefully they won't disappoint.

Antonio

On 10 December 2013 13:51, Peter Venus <news at petervenus.de> wrote:
> Hi Antonio!
>
> Am 09.12.13 18:55, schrieb Antonio Roberts:
>
>> Hi Peter
>>
>>> i did some research on which cards are made with the original
>>> "easycap" chipset", and found, that [1] uses it. all the others, which
>>> go for the same 20eruros or so, i tested already used the
>>> usbtv-chipset/driver.
>>
>> Do these definitely have have the DC60 chipset/use the stk1160 drive?
>> The problem I've found is that many purport to using the DC60 chipset
>> but in fact don't (hence my second one not working properly)
>>
> I bought those while searching for cards with the stk1160. in fact, i had a
> similar problem with vendors, claiming they use the original easycap
> chipset, but using the usbtv instead. (i bought sth like 5 different
> devices, all of them not working)
> so: if conrad electronic did not change anything in the br116 cards within
> the last 3months, those should be working.
>
>
>
>
>
>> Antonio
>>
>> On Mon 09 Dec 2013 09:09:43 GMT, Peter Venus wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> as for the easycap capturecards, i worked with a couple of those
>>> recently:
>>> there are general problems with some chipsets, especially with those
>>> using the usbtv drivers.
>>> when i tried to work with those in september, there was just a
>>> experimental linux driver available, which i didnt manage to get
>>> working in linux in general, not just pd.
>>> so, if you have them working in cheese etc, aou are already more
>>> successful then i was.
>>> my suggestion would be to get cards, that rely on the stk1160 driver,
>>> since they work perfect(i had 8 running at the same time)
>>>
>>> i did some research on which cards are made with the original
>>> "easycap" chipset", and found, that [1] uses it. all the others, which
>>> go for the same 20eruros or so, i tested already used the
>>> usbtv-chipset/driver.
>>>
>>> [1] renkforce br116
>>>
>>> http://www.conrad-electronic.co.uk/ce/en/product/956875/Renkforce-BR116-USB-20-Video-Grabber
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers, peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 09.12.13 00:19, schrieb Antonio Roberts:
>>>>
>>>> I'm using PD extended 0.43.4 on Ubuntu 13.10 and have a problem with
>>>> [pix_video].
>>>>
>>>> I have two Easycap USB composite capture cards. One of them has the DC60
>>>> chipset and uses the stk1160 driver and works with PD/Gem i.e. I'm able
>>>> to use it (plus an old video camera) as a video input device (very
>>>> useful!)
>>>>
>>>> The second one I have
>>>> (www.amazon.co.uk/EasyCap-DC60-Capture-Adapter-Software/dp/B003QA7MES/ )
>>>> doesn't use the stk1160 driver and instead uses the usbtv driver.
>>>>
>>>> When I load the video device (usually /dev/video1) into [pix_video] it
>>>> completely freezes PD (watchdog: signaling pd... keeps being repeated in
>>>> the command line).
>>>>
>>>> This seems to be an error with GEM as the capture card works in every
>>>> other application that I've tried it on (Cheese, Camorama,
>>>> avconv/ffmpeg, web applications)
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to diagnose and fix this?
>>>>
>>>> Antonio
>>>>
>>
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