On Saturday 25 November 2000 17:42, you wrote: > In lists.linux.v4l, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using xawtv on different machines I find that the menu has different > > features. I'm using the same xawtv version on all machines. > > On some machines the volume slide and Audio setting is missing and on > > other machines the color slide is missing. > > Yes. xawtv looks at the capabilities reported by the hardware driver. > If the driver says it can't ajust something xawtv will not display that > control because using it would have no effect anyway... > > For the volume you can tell xawtv to use the soundcard mixer instead > of the v4l API. That will help in case the TV card itself can't control > the volume. > > > Also when I change to "grabdisplay" I get : > > grabbing: not supported > > Xvideo? grabbing does'nt work then. You can turn off Xvideo by running > xawtv with "-noxv". > > Gerd Thanks Gerd. I didn't know about Xvideo and grabbing. Now it is working. When using -noxv I also have my color, volume slide and the audio selector (mono/stereo) back. Things make sense to me now because the difference between the machines that I use is the use of Xvideo. I just didn't think of that being the reason :-) -- Marcel Janssen
