[Kwintv] Nearly fine, but still some standard problems at startup

Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian at free.fr
Sun Feb 22 22:52:45 CET 2004


> > Overlay would indeed be an interesting test, since I would use bttv
> > and bypass Xv.
> > However, I didn't managed to do the test, since the overlay plugin
> > doesn't appear in the video plugins settings (only mixer and xv
> > does appear). How can I get these plugins compiled and installed ?
>
> It's not a plugin, it's a config option of the v4l plugin ("prefer overlay
> if available").

Well, using overlay does not solve anything. The norm is still not
fixed until I resize the window. This seems to eliminate threading problems
in qtvision and make the Xv bug theory more probable.

> Install libzvbi and the headers for it (usually libzvbi-devel) and rerun
> configure.

Well, I tested the VBI plugin for scanning, and indeed it works
perfectly under Kernel 2.6. I got all the stations, without crashing.

Moreover, I can use bt848 (video4linux) too (until now, I had to
use the Xv device). And... hourrah! the norm is correctly set up.
This means : Xv from X11 4.3.0 doesn't work with 2.6, V4L/VBI
works perfectly.

The last test I'll do is to install XFree 4.4.0 when it'll be out.

Thanks for all,

CC



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