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Date:      Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:50:56 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
Cc:        Jeremy Porter <jerry@freeside.fc.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem capturing video with BT848/Haughpage Win/Tv 
Message-ID:  <199804190150.SAA00573@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:42:34 EDT." <19980418214234.B5653@ct.picker.com> 

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Not so quick.

It does matter if it he is running SMP or UP kernels.

	Cheers,
	Amancio



> Jeremy Porter:
>  |I've gotten my system to be able to display video in a window
>  |with fxtv, but I can't seem to save data.  This system is a
>  |AMD K5-133 and doesn't have a lot of horsepower, but that
>  |doesn't seem to be the problem.  The save image feature doesn't
>  |work it reports "No frozen image".  The freeze image button doesn't
>  |seem to matter here.
> ...
> Amancio Hasty:
>  |I think that there may be a problem with fxtv saving non-interlaced images
>  |however with interlaced images it seems to work rather well.
> 
> No, no problem's ever been reported with freeze-frame of images, single or
> double field.
> 
> I suspect this is the "Bt848 driver isn't issuing frame completion signals"
> problem that I'm helping Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net> with now.  Look in your
> -multimedia list mail for the thread labeled:  "Re: Bt848: no IRQ".
> 
> Jeremy, a few questions about your system config to try and nail this down:
> 
>          - FreeBSD version  (2.2.6, 3.0-current [how current])
>          - Is your system SMP?
>          - Fxtv version
>          - Capture Card       (e.g. Hauppauge WinTV)
>          - Capture Card Tuner (e.g. Philips FR1236MK2)
>          - dmesg output.  E.g.:
>          
>             bktr0: <BrookTree 848> rev 0x11 int a irq 9 on pci0.11.0
>             Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner, dbx stereo.
> 
>          - Relevent kernel config lines
>          - "fxtv -debug startup" output
> 
> Finally, please grab the source for Fxtv-0.46
> (http://multiverse.com/~rhh/fxtv), and add this line to the top of
> tvcapture.c::TVCAPTUREFrameDoneSigHdlr():
> 
>      static void TVCAPTUREFrameDoneSigHdlr()
>      {
>          printf( "Got a frame!\n" );            /*  <---  Add this line  */
>          S_frame_done_count++; 
> 
> Then compile fxtv, run it, and freeze a frame.  If you don't see:
> 
>          Got a frame!
> 
> the driver's not issuing signals to Fxtv like it should.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Randall
> 
> 
>          



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