Sorry about the encoding. It work fine with Chinese. Thanks first. My problem is I can get a grayscale video only from my capture card. Hardware: BT848 compliant card signal from VCR A/V connector K6-2 400, 128M, 3d virge vga card ( it will be impossible or unacceptable to run M$ Win) Software: RH7.3 (2.4.18-3) without any modify with the kernel Xawtv come with RH My procedures: modprobe bttv (it create /dev/video0 ~/dev/video3) it automatically load i2c & videodev. streamer -s 320x240 -r 30 -f mjpeg -F mono16 -n ntsc -o /video/movie.avi ( I tried several times with different options, only "-s 320x240 -r 30 -n ntsc" can get a grayscale video, I guess it will be more closer to the goal) Ian Ball wrote: >Much better, although it seems I have skipped through one set too many >headers and looked at a different messages headers. Such mistakes are made >after being awake for 27 hours... I have looked a little more closely and >seen that your character set is set to GB2312, which may be causing some >problems for me. Could you try changing the character set to something else >for any subsequent messages please? I will look further into this on my side >before I consider reporting a bug to the KDE team. > >So, back to your original problem. If we are to help you , we need some >information about what you are doing and what exactly the problem is. This >means what software you are using to try to achieve ??(what are you trying to >do)?, what card, graphical environment, modules you have loaded (if any), etc >you are using what you have done to get to the point you are now, what you >see, useful stuff like that. > >Ian > > > >_______________________________________________ >Video4linux-list mailing list >Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > Thanks & Regards --M