[PD] pix_video under linux

Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 bbogart at acs.ryerson.ca
Thu Jun 20 15:14:10 CEST 2002


PS: I also can't figure out how to turn it to NSTC rather than PAL (but 
it automattically grabbed my composite channel when I had video going in)

Thanks!
 


On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:

> ummmmmmmm 
> 
> Was pix_video supposed to work under gem.87 under linux? because I just 
> happend to load the pix_video simple patch and I'm getting noise on the 
> square, in fact its looks an awful lot like the noise that comes out of 
> my winTV card when Its set to "tuner" input. Here is the output:
> 
> cap: name BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) type 235 channels 4 maxw 640 maxh 576 
> minw 48 minh 32
> 
> picture: brightness 32768 depth 0 palette 0
> 
> channel 0 name Television type 1 flags 3
> channel 1 name Composite1 type 2 flags 2
> channel 2 name S-Video type 2 flags 2
> channel 3 name Composite3 type 2 flags 2
> buffer size 4259840, frames 2, offset 0 2129920
> 
> frame 0 0, format 4, width 48, height 32
> 
> allocating
> GEM: pix_video: Opened video connection
> 
> Now I tried running the "video sphere" example patch, but that segfaulted 
> PD. So is this supposed to work? How do I change the video input source? 
> a message "channel 1" did not work. Even the teapot works!!!!!!! 
> 
> I'm reading though the pix_video (linux) src now, but my c++ is 
> nonexistant! I'll see if I can find the method for "channel"
> 
> Thanks all, I'm simply blown away.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> B. Bogart
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B. Bogart
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