[Kwintv] Naive bug?

[George Staikos]

  You're better off trying the latest rewrite code from kdenonbeta/kwintv3/.  
The old code is known to be very buggy and there isn't much effort to fix it 
given the overwhelming number of bugs and the amount of effort required.  The 
rewrite is fairly usable now.


On Saturday 22 March 2003 07:47, Joao Fraga wrote:
> I am running KWinTV 0.8.11 on SuSE 8.1. I have a webcam using
> /dev/video0. The Pinnacle PCTV is using /dev/video1.
>
> The problem is that KWinTV refuses to start when the TV card is on
> /dev/video1. Not even using the --device parameter works. It displays
> always the following error on the console:
>         /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support
> Xawtv and Zapping work fine when the TV card is on /dev/video1. But
> KWinTV works normally *only* when the TV card is on /dev/video0.
>
> On KWinTV Preferences, there should be an option to choose which video
> device the user wants to use. A user may have several video hardware
> devices on his computer (even several TV cards!). It shouldn't be
> necessary to pass command line args to tell the program which device to
> use. KWinTV is a GUI app, so a user should be able to configure it by
> just using the GUI. And there shouldn't be a sloppy text box on for the
> user to enter "/dev/video1" or "/dev/video0" at the Preferences. This is
> a program to be used by ordinary users, remember! Instead, KWinTV should
> query for the name of each video hardware device available, fill a
> select/combo box with the video device names, so that the user can
> choose. Additionally, on startup KWinTV should test if /dev/video0 is a
> valid device. If not, test the next available video device until it
> eventually finds a working TV card. And if it doesn't find, it should
> *not* exit with a sloppy console error message. It should display a
> dialog box explaing the error, but *not* quit. In this situation, the
> user could then go to the Preferences, look at the combo box with the
> probed video devices, choose a different one and see if it works.
>
>
> Joćo Fraga
>
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George Staikos