Chris Nuernberger wrote: > Two choices > 1. debug streamer. No. Debug the driver. Applications *must not* be able to hang the computer. If that happens it is either a kernel bug (likely in the v4l2 driver) or bad hardware. It is surprising throught that xawtv works and streamer doesn't as they basically use the same code to do the recording ... Gerd -- #include </dev/tty>