[libdv-dev] Compiling and Installing libdv - Video stabilities problems.

[Sergio R. <sr...@ya...>]

Hi,

I'm smashing my head against these problems.

I'm trying to capture dv data from a camera. Using the stock libdv that 
comes with the distro I'm using (SUSE 9.1 and libdv version 0.101-43, guess 
that would be 1.01 built 43) I noticed the video seems very unstable. At 
time it turns to its negative form or to a sepia color, at times it shakes 
or do some zomming in-out at its own will, at times it changes its aspect 
ratio, at times it superimposes frames taken among several seconds (like 
doing a fade in fade out). Assumed it has something to do with newer 
versions of libdv so I uninstalled that stock version and installed the 
1.02 one. After the ./configure; make and make install everything seemed to 
be OK, no complains at all. But whenever I try to use dvconnect it does 
nothing. And I mean nothing. Even trying 'dvconnect --version' does 
nothing. The program just exits. I see no core dumps or segmentation 
faults, and now I'm completely lost. playdv does something similar. If I 
use playdv ExampleFile.dv, it plays the file, but if I use 'playdv 
--version' it exits with the message "open:: No such file or directory".

I know I must be doing something incredibly stupid, but I can't figure out 
what. Also, is that kind of unstableness with the video common? What could 
be its source?
After trying a lot of things I installed the demo version of the MainActor 
suite for video editing and it exhibits the same video stabilities issues. 
Guess it doesn't use the libdv library, so this must be coming in from 
another source. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sergio Roysen
Buenos Aires
Argentina.