douglas irving repetto wrote:
>
> hope i'm not being too annoying by responding to myself all the
> time...but this is really driving me crazy! now after trying various
> things like running xawtv as root with various command line options
> videodog has gone back to reporting:
>
> [root@stamp2 douglas]# videodog -s -d /dev/video0
>
> Video Cat tool Version 0.06
> Device Name: BT878(Hauppauge new (bt878))
> Device: /dev/video
> Max Width : 768
> Max Height : 480
> Current Settings :
>
> Input : 0
> Brightness : 32768
> Hue : 32768
> Colour : 32512
> Contrast : 32768
>
> so my Max Width is back to 768! and guess what -- the images are fine
> again!!! arrrrrg. so somehow something is making either the card or the
> driver get confused about what its max size settings are. does that make
> any sense to anyone? does anyone have any idea what i might look at to
> fix this???
Hi !
Does the mode ( NTSC, PAL, SECAM ) changed between those xawtv runs ?
Each mode has a different ( I dont know exactly how much ) width. The
program can be reporting the actual Max Width and not the real absolute
chipset Max Width.
Just a thought...
Regards
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Gleicon S. Moraes
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