On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:57, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:17:13AM +0100, Zsolt Rizsanyi wrote: > > My machine freezes when trying to start any tv viewer program (tried > > xawtv, fbtv, qtvision). It is working for 0-3 secs then the screen > > freezes. The interesting is that scantv works. And even streamer works. > > I can record by streamer and play it with mplayer (using XVideo). Do > > anybody knows what could then be the problem? > > I have the same problem with an alimagik1 Chipset/NVIDIA/bttv, which I > posted here a few days ago (bounced you the mails in private). Yes I have got the mail. Thanks. We have the same problem. > It seems that overlay mode, i.e. direct PCI to PCI communication between > capture and display card, is broken somehow. Either hardware, or kernel or > bttv. I don't know of any diagnostic method to distinguish further. Yes. It would be nice if could get some help in this area. Tough very probably it is a hardware bug, which could be avoided by a kernel hack. I have found a page with google where it is mentioned that there is a patch for windows to fix this issue. > > This seems the same as posted on this list about a month ago. Have > > anybody found a resolution? > > What have been tried out since? Have you tried all the proposed solutions > > from README.quirks from the bttv documentation. > > > > I'm going to try those when I have time, but I would like not to do work > > in vain. > > Does `xawtv -remote -noxv-video' work? Does `xawtv -remote' work also in > the sense that you get a black screen, but the box doesn't crash? What > display card do you have, and what kernel/bttv version? xawtv -remote does give some picture too it is very garbled, but xawtv -remote -noxv-video gives perfect picture Thanks for the tip. For the system specs see my other mail. Regards Zsolt
