Re: [Dvr-devel]minor bug & oddities

[scott f. <sc...@bi...>]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Pierre H=E9bert wrote:

> On Friday 18 January 2002 12:05, you wrote:
> > Been using DVR for a little while. Working well, but i need a little =
more
> > CPU grunt.
> >
> > Struck a couple of problems though:
> >
> > - if specified video device is a directory, DVR crashes when you star=
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> > capturing.

I've since downloaded 2.6 and this doesn't crash, but throws up an=20
exception dialog box.

> >
> > I discovered this because on RH7.2, /dev/video is actually a director=
y,
> > that contains other device.
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> I never thought at such a problem ! I will probably correct this proble=
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> the next version of DVR, but it may also take more time, because the vi=
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> device management is a part of kwintv that I plan to rewrite.
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> > - when selecting a video codec, sometimes i dont get what i select.
> >
> > If i select OS MJPEG, i actually get the morgan codec, and mainactor.=
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> > watermarks in the captured stream.
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> It is weird. Either there is a little bug in avifile, either there are=20
> inconsistencies in the codec config part of DVR (?). I will have a look=
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> this.

Something is amiss, because the Morgan codec doesn't actually show up in=20
the list, however in aviplay, it lists both the MS and Morgan codecs.

aviplay, that comes with the avifile lists many more codecs than DVR does=
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Admittedly some of these are probably playback-only codecs. It does=20
however list MS MJPEG, OS MJEG and morgan separately.

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> > I'm off to rebuild avifile and dvr from scratch to see if it helps...
> It may help, because avifile is in a fast progress state.

Since then i've rebuilt avifile a couple of times as well using prebuilt=20
RPMs. I dont know if i've actually learnt anything though. I wonder if i=20
shouldn't try this all on a clean machine.

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> Pierre.
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