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

[Johannes S. <joh...@te...>]

On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 22:14, Sergio Roysen wrote:
> 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".

strace -o /tmp/trace dvconnect

may reveal some additional clues.

-- Hannes