> hi folks : > > i am using a bt878 based capture card and hope to capture the video > signal out from a DVD player directly via the xawtv. it works perfectly > for the NTSC signal but not the PAL signal. i tried to alter the NORM > for the signal but it did'nt work. any comment ? > > many thanks > > cheers, > kai Sure your DVD player supports PAL output? Had the same problem with a NTSC camera connected to a capture board. The Siemens MXB board (http://www-c.informatik.uni-hannover.de/~hunold1/linux/saa7146/index.html#supported) was running fine, switching between PAL (cable tuner) and NTSC (cam on composite-in) worked "out of the box" with xawtv. With a bt848 and a bt878 based board this wasn't possible because the BTTV driver (used BTTV2) didn't allow switching the norm while a grabber application was running. I had to restart xawtv (or any other app) to switch between NTSC and PAL. For xawtv this resulted in setting the norm in the config file _before_ starting xawtv. Another thing: It depends on the layout of the bt8x8 board if they support both PAL and NTSC (except the TV tuner which is one-norm-only on most of the boards, at least here in Europe). A guy from the german debian list told me that bt848 boards need two quartz pieces to support PAL and NTSC and that for newer bt chips (878?) a solution with one quartz is possible and that his 848 does not support anything else than PAL. He told me to have a look at the bt8x8 data sheets to find out whether my boards are supporting NTSC or not. Unfortunately I never looked at these papers - I just tried and both my 848 and 878 board support NTSC on the composite-in ... :) Regards, Andreas -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
