Re: [V4L] streamer capture

["Troy L. Swaine" <troys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wandered Inn wrote:

> I've had my wintv card working for quite a while.  I've used it with
> cable input, camcorder input and web cam input.  I'm able to generate
> pretty decent jpegs.  I recently attempted to use streamer to capture a
> small segment of video from my camcorder, with poor results.  When
> viewed via xanim, the avi file presents a black/white video that covers
> roughly the top 2/3 of the window.  I've attempted variations on fps and
> window size.  The best I get is the above description with:
>
> streamer -s 320x240 -i s-video -r 20 -t 60 -o foo.avi
>
> Any suggestions as to how I might produce a more useful video?
>
> Hardware: Celeron 400, 128meg, Matrox Millennium 8meg, blaster 3dfx
> add-on card 8meg.
>
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I had a similiar problem when I fist started out, found streamer was
recording in PAL
instead of NTSC . I believe you need to set the flag for that in
streamer....IMHO