I've had this Hauppauge WinTV card for years. Only used it for a couple
of months when NetMeeting first came out. Well, recently I broke down
and purchased a bunch of X10 cameras out of curiousity. I've been trying
to get the darn thing to work with gspy and xawtv. Neither software will
show me any video.
I've been playing around with the videodev API's to get info from the
card. I've tried different things to try to capture frames playing
around with the settings in gspy. I've had no luck. I think I'm all
tapped out of ideas and need help.
This is what I'm trying to do. I have my X10 cameras hooked up to my
Hauppauge card. There's a coaxial connection and RCA connections. I'm
using the RCA, but only the video. When I try to capture from gspy, I
only get a snowy picture. What do I need to do to configure the card
correctly? I've written a little snippet to dump the configuration info
from my card, here you go:
=====================================================================
/dev/video0 card info:
name = BT848(Hauppauge old)
type = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_OVERLAY |
VID_TYPE_CLIPPING | VID_TYPE_FRAMERAM | VID_TYPE_SCALES |
channels = 4
audios = 1
maxwidth = 768
maxheight = 480
minwidth = 48
minheight = 32
=====================================================================
/dev/video0 channel info:
channel = -1
name = Composite-1
tuners = 0
type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
norm = 2
/dev/video0 channel info:
channel = 0
name = Television
tuners = 1
type = VID_VC_TUNER | VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x3
input type = VID_TYPE_TV, 0x1
norm = 1
/dev/video0 channel info:
channel = 1
name = Composite1
tuners = 0
type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
norm = 2
/dev/video0 channel info:
channel = 2
name = S-Video
tuners = 0
type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
norm = 2
/dev/video0 channel info:
channel = 3
name = Composite3
tuners = 0
type = VID_VC_AUDIO | , 0x2
input type = VID_TYPE_TUNER, 0x2
norm = 2
Error: unable to get capabilities
=====================================================================
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
tuner = -1
name = Television
range low = 0l
range high = 4294967295l
tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT |
, 0x7
mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
tuner = 0
name = Television
range low = 0l
range high = 4294967295l
tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT |
, 0x7
mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
tuner = 1
name = Television
range low = 0l
range high = 4294967295l
tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT |
, 0x7
mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
tuner = 2
name = Television
range low = 0l
range high = 4294967295l
tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT |
, 0x7
mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
signal strength = 0
/dev/video0 card tuner info:
tuner = 3
name = Television
range low = 0l
range high = 4294967295l
tuner = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | VID_TYPE_TUNER | VID_TYPE_TELETEXT |
, 0x7
mode = VID_TYPE_CAPTURE | , 0x1
I don't know what to do to acquire snapshots from the card when video
source is hooked up to the RCA video port. Again, this is an old
Hauppauge card. Possibly around 8 years old. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
-rob
