[Kwintv] Comments on latest qtvision

[George Staikos]

On Thursday October 24 2002 13:51, Michael Kedl wrote:
> > > 1) in xv mode, it scales down, but not above 1x.  I think this may be
> > > related to my X driver; xawtv behaves the same.  But just thought I'd
> > > mention it.
> >
> >    This is your X server for sure.  What hardware and drivers are you
> > using? (Video, capture, etc - and proprietary drivers?  xf86 version?)
>
> Sager Laptop, Redhat 8.0, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500,
>
> XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> Release Date: 23 January 2002

  Ooooh another RH machine.  I smell a trend. :)

   This ripping/interlacing stuff also seems to be a trend amongst LCD users.

> >    Oh now I understand.  You have old code.  It is triggering the video
> > overlay for V4L.  I had that enabled but have since disabled it just
> > because v4l grab+display works better now (as you have seen).
>
> I just verified I have the CVS head code.
> make distclean and rebuilt from scratch.
> I still can't get anything on top of the v4l window.

  Something is not right.  Either you have an X server bug, or you are still 
somehow running old code.  Overlay is explicitly disabled in HEAD right now.  
See line 172 in qtvision_v4l.cpp:
        _useOverlay(false), _devMtx(true)
And line 505:
 if (_useOverlay && dev->canOverlay()) {

  That's the only place where overlay can be turned on or off.  So, what this 
tells me is either that you have old code (ie an old plugin or are pulling 
from an outdated CVS mirror), or there is an X server bug that is causing Xv 
to overlay on top of everything else for you.

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George Staikos