Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:21:09 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no> To: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regression in Webcamd Message-ID: <527204E5.7060101@bitfrost.no> In-Reply-To: <CAEJt7hZ-xxPB_nBh-81ukTD94JG_wc7RiwEzR0x97ByO%2BvO-nw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEJt7hZ-xxPB_nBh-81ukTD94JG_wc7RiwEzR0x97ByO%2BvO-nw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/31/13 07:00, Henry Hu wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I tried to use my TV stick (Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE) that once I > used successfully, and found that it does not work properly. > > The scanning works fine, but when playing the video, it seems like that the > data fed to players are problematic. I tried mplayer/vlc/mythtv and all of > them show similar problems: the video is mangled (with correct blocks here > and there) and the audio is intermittent. mplayer says a52 decoding error > and mpeg2 decoding error. > It's not a signal problem, because it works flawlessly with older versions > of webcamd. > I tried various versions of webcamd and here is the result: > 322747 (3.11.0.2) does not work > 322982 (3.10.0.7) does not work > 312661 (3.9.0.5) works > 310291 (3.9.0.1) works > 300026 (3.6.0.1) works > 277800 (3.0.0.1) works > So it seems like that there is a regression between 3.9.0.5 and 3.10.0.7. > I'm willing to help with debugging this problem. > > My system is a recent current under amd64. > Hi, Maybe you can try this: Remove the "media_tree" directory from "3.11.0.2". Then copy the "media_tree" from "3.9.0.5" to "3.11.0.2" right after "make extract". Just ignore any failing patches, or remove them from "patches/do_patch.sh" BTW: There will soon be a new version of webcamd, using the latest Linux sources. Thanks! --HPS
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