HD Capture Cards on Linux

2014-12-08 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, In my apparently eternal quest for a decent HD capture card with support for v4l2 I couldn't find an existing table of cards, I've put one up the Wiki. I hope I've done it correctly, these tables are horrible to maintain. Anyhow if people would like to look at it, I'd be grateful fo

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2014-11-18 Thread Steve Cookson
While trying to debug a particularly recalcitrant segfault on entering GStreamer, I found all this on dmesg. I don't know if it is connected, but I haven't seen it before. I'm using a Dazzle DVC 100 Rev 1.1. I get it across several different platforms (this is an Asus Zen laptop). The opera

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2014-11-17 Thread Steve Cookson
While trying to debug a particularly recalcitrant segfault on entering GStreamer, I found all this on dmesg. I don't know if it is connected, but I haven't seen it before. I'm using a Dazzle DVC 100 Rev 1.1. I get it across several different platforms (this is an Asus Zen laptop). The opera

Re: Comparisons of images between Dazzle DVC100, EasyCap stk1160 and Hauppauge ImapctVCB-e in Linux.

2014-04-25 Thread Steve Cookson
help it at all? Otherwise I should just focus on EasyCap for my raw SD capture and move on. Thanks, Steve On 23/04/14 16:22, Steve Cookson wrote: Hi Guys, I would be interested in your views of the comparisons of these images. The still is the image of a duodenum taken during an endos

Comparisons of images between Dazzle DVC100, EasyCap stk1160 and Hauppauge ImapctVCB-e in Linux.

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I would be interested in your views of the comparisons of these images. The still is the image of a duodenum taken during an endoscopy and recorded to a DVD player (via an s-video or composite cable). Although the endoscope is an HD endoscope, the DVD recorder isn't and the resulti

Re: [PATCH] cx23885: add support for Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I've been playing around with this on my Kubuntu 13.10. Apart from the issue that you know I have of the altera-stapl.ko file arriving in the wrong directory, I think it's a good basis for moving forwards. What is the process for including this in the Linux TV baseline? I feel the

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/04/14 19:15, Steve Cookson wrote: For no good reason AFAICT the initial resolution is set to 320x240. But >you can just set it to 640x480 (or more likely, 720x480 for NTSC or >720x576 for PAL): > >v4l2-ctl -v width=640,height=480 Hi Guys, The attachments here are sent using

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
t it isn't. The stk1160 s-video at 640x480 is much better than the ImpactVCB-e on either composite or s-video. Regards Hans Verkuil wrote: >On 04/16/2014 07:11 PM, Steve Cookson wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> On 14/04/14 15:02, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> >> > I

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, On 14/04/14 15:02, Hans Verkuil wrote: > I'd appreciate it if you can test this with a proper video feed. Ok, here is the first issue: 1) I have a 640x480 video feed which displays appropriately through stk1160, but only displays at 320x240 in ImpactVCBe. In fact this is the same i

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, On 16/04/14 14:20, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> However looking at the tree structure I have to say I don't understand >> > it. Firstly there seem to be two equivalent branches in /lib/modules/: >> > >> > 1) drivers/linux/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/ >> > >> > and >> > >> > 2) drivers/misc/alt

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Hans, Thanks for this. On 16/04/14 10:58, Hans Verkuil wrote: > find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/|grep altera > > If you have duplicate altera-stapl.ko files, then that might explain it. > In that case remove the older module. There are indeed duplicates. I removed the older one and dmesg went

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson
On 15/04/14 19:44, Steve Cookson wrote: [ 13.237914] cx23885: disagrees about version of symbol altera_init [ 13.237917] cx23885: Unknown symbol altera_init (err -22) Is it a regression issue? https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media/issues/2#issuecomment-23365778 I'm on 3.11.0-18. Re

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Hans, On 15/04/14 18:13, Hans Verkuil wrote: You may have to do a 'depmod -a' here. Try that first. I tried that. It worked fine. No more error messages from make -C .. rmmod >11tried to modprobe cx23885, but got "invalid agrgument" Somewhat strange error message. Does 'dmesg' give

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson
On 15/04/14 18:13, Hans Verkuil wrote: Somewhat strange error message. Does 'dmesg' give you any useful info? I get this: image@image-H61M-DS2:~$ dmesg | grep -i cx23885 [ 13.237914] cx23885: disagrees about version of symbol altera_init [ 13.237917] cx23885: Unknown symbol altera_init (er

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, On 14/04/14 15:02, Hans Verkuil wrote: > I'd appreciate it if you can test this with a proper video feed. Well, I've been installing the patch today. I finished the compilation script and the card is not detected. Here's what I did: It's been a bit hard-going because my ISP has be

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, On 11/04/14 11:35, Hans Verkuil wrote: Actually, I would recommend that you try playing with the 'card=' option to see if you can get something that works. I suspect that adding support for this card isn't hard. Well I did try the card= option before and it worked in a way. The raster

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, Thanks for this, I'll do as you suggested. On 11/04/14 10:45, Hans Verkuil wrote: I have serious doubts whether this is actually supported. I see no mention of that board in the cx23885 driver. I wonder if there is a mixup between the ImpactVCB (which IS supported) and the ImpactVCB-e.

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
So I'm back to the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385. Apparently it's fully supported by the current Linux kernel: Model Standard Interface Supported Comments ImpactVCB-e Video PCIe ✔ Yes No tuners, only video-in. S-Video Capture works with

Re: List objectives and interests.

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Hans, Thanks for your reply. On 11/04/14 08:50, Hans Verkuil wrote: HD is well supported for embedded systems What does embedded systems mean, you mean like the decklink proprietary software? Regards Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the b

List objectives and interests.

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi People, Could I, please, I clarify what the purposes of this list are? I am developing a system to collect medical raw video based on Linux. I have tested a number of SD and HD adaptors for this project some of which have worked to a greater or lesser extent. Is this the right place for

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Cookson
>The issue is nobody cares enough to >update the driver to support >your card and make it work out of the box. Hi Steve, Thanks for your response. Well not nobody because I do. How do I do it? If you would guide me through, I will happily update it. Regards Steve. Steven Toth wrote: >> W

Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Cookson - IT
Hi Guys, Sorry to go on about the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01385, but it's a couple of years and version 12.04, since I last asked. This page: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge Now shows: Table of analog-only devices sold by Hauppauge Model Standard Interface Supported Comments Impa

Re: What are "Other" video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Cookson
On 26/09/2013 08:32, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Typically the video standard needs to be correct (e.g. PAL vs NTSC), > and the video format produced by the video capture card must be > supported by the application. > > Ask them to run 'v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --all', that gives a good > overview of the

What are "Other" video capture settings.

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi All, Occasionally I see emails suggesting that a video capture card has not been configured properly on Linux and that the problems the questioner is experiencing is down to this. I have no idea what this means. I usually use a gstreamer command like: gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 17/09/2013 12:38, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > Nope, the opposite. In order to compress the video you need to store > enough context to look for repetition. Ok, quite intuitive, once you know what to look for. > Yup. We've been through the exercise several times with various HD capture board

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/09/2013 19:09, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > To be clear, this card is a *raw* capture card. It does not have any > hardware compression for H.264. It's done entirely in software. Ok, well I misunderstood that. And, in addition, I also thought that hardware encoding *reduced* latency, some

Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi People, I just wrote an email to this group about the Hauppauge 01381. Really it was a fall-back choice. If I can't get anything else then that might be my only option left. But here is my preferred choice. The Startech PEXHDCAP. It costs about $100 here: http://www.amazon.com/StarTech

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe driver resolution.

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/09/2013 14:38, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > I'm not sure what other cards you've tried. Nowadays they should all > deliverable comparable performance for s-video (since no chroma > separation is involved), if they don't then it's almost certainly a > Linux driver bug. > > If you have a com

Re: Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe driver resolution.

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
than the Dazzle? Regards Steve. On 15/09/2013 17:26, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > > On Sep 15, 2013 11:35 AM, "Steve Cookson" wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > I seem to be having immense difficulty getting the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe card

Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe driver resolution.

2013-09-15 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I seem to be having immense difficulty getting the Hauppauge ImpactVCB-e 01381 PCIe card working on Linux (I'm using Kubuntu 13.04) with greater than 320x240 resolution. This is what I've done: lspci recognises the card but only as a Conexant card (Vendor ID = 14f1:8852), not Haupp

RE: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

2013-06-18 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Jim, > I don't want to configure a RAID either, but if I purchase one SSD with 400 MB/sec write speeds, that might be good. Hmm... nice idea. Did you have any particular model in mind? If you had a link, I might be interested. I wouldn't know about sizing. I don't know how much space HD raw

RE: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

2013-06-18 Thread Steve Cookson
#x27;m going to buy one for testing over the next month or so, so if you want to keep in touch, I'll let you know how it goes. Regards Steve -Original Message- From: James Board [mailto:jpboa...@yahoo.com] Sent: 18 June 2013 13:19 To: Steve Cookson Subject: Re: HD Capture Card (H

RE: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

2013-06-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, > I'm looking for a capture card for a Linux > system.  I'd like to be able to capture Component > as well as HDMI (from non-encrypted non-HDCP) > sources.  I'd also like to capture the raw pixels, > and not use real-time MPEG encoding.  A lossless > output format like huffyuv is oka

What digital/analogue video capture card do you use?

2013-06-15 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I have test a number of internal and external analogue video capture cards with Kubuntu 12.04 with more or less success. But I have failed find any cost effective digital ones. Could someone point me at a card which is: - cost-effective - internal (PCIe) - uses hardware compression (l