[Kwintv] qtvision does not work at all

[Claus-Justus Heine]

Sorry,

works like a charm, with the exception that sound is only on one 
channel, but this might not be qtvision's problem.


Claus-Justus Heine wrote:

>Hi,
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>I have a bttv card (Hauppauge something) which has a Bt878 (rev 2)
>and an MGA 550 gfx adapter.
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>The XFree86 version is 4.3.0
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>qtvision compiles out of the box, no problems. Only, video capturing doesn't 
>work. It works sort of, but _very_ flaky, when using overlay video overlay 
>(checking that "prefer video overlay if available" box in the plugin's config 
>section). Otherwise it just hangs.
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>The X-server has loaded the v4l module, and from the debugging messages of 
>qtvision I deduce that qtvision knows it.
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>Is it known that qtvision works -- in principle -- with this combination (i.e. 
>Matrox MGA  550, Bt878)? And if yes, with which XFree version, kernel 
>version, bttv driver versino (already tested v4l2, didn't change anything).
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>If I had a working combination as start point I could try to find out what the 
>problem is.
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>Actually, what I'm really missing in qtvision is a button which disables video 
>grabbing. kwintv had such a button.
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>It is really a pain when you try to configure qtvision, set the input device, 
>and then qtvision tries to start captureing and hangs (of course, wouldn't be 
>so bad if it would not hang).  However, I'd really appreciate a global 
>"disable capturing" button. Maybe it is there and I didn't find it.
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>Looks quite nice otherwise, if it would work.
>
>Greetings
>
>Claus
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