Hello all,
This is my first message to this list.
I'm facing a problem regarding bttv. My TV application freezes after
some hours of use.
I developed a very simple tv app only to test bttv. It only configures
things like window sizes, bpp, etc, and triggers the overlay mode. After
that I realized (note that I'm a newbie in these issues) that I only
need to call the VIDIOCCAPTURE ioctl to start the overlay using X
extension DGA. In the bttv code I see that it starts a DMA.
I think that these shouldn't be tricky but in my system it works very
well but after some hours of overlay and other ramdom softwares running
it crashes.
I'm thinking of start to go deep in bttv code, to try to figure out what
is happening, and I would appreciate any advice on how-to and the best
ways to make(start) it. Any suggestion would be very welcomed.
If anyone could give some help in the freeze or had some similar story
in the past, my configuration is:
-XFree 4.0.3
-Kernel 2.4.7
-bttv 0.7.57
-Flyvideo 98 FM TV board
-SIS630 video
Is it recommended to go to bttv0.8.x ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Daniel Petrini
