zapping-misc — General discussion

[Zapping-misc] Broken WSS

[Maarten v. L. <ha...@gm...>]

Tried the new 0.2.20 release and the support for wss (via v4l2 video, not
vbi lines) does not work any more.
The example wss file (old wss test file) doens't work. Error: "Cannot decod=
e
wss" is given, with 0.2.19 still works perfectly.
System has Pinnacle PCTV 40i card that works fine for everything else.

What could be up?

[Zapping-misc] so frustrated please help me !!!

[max K. <ma...@ho...>]

Hi guys

I am so frustrated with making my device work with some help of zapping.

I think almost everything is OK .

My device,cx2388x chipset,  has support for v4l, v4l2, xvideo etc
Other programs ,such as tvtime, kdetv, are working fine except for this.
Others also have some bugs though.

What I figured ou is as follows:

zapping alsway uses the driver of v4l not v4l2 but my device, cx2388x, uses 
v4l2. I tryed to chage the configuration for the controlbler but failed.

Isn't there any way to do that ?
I tried compiling with some options but in vain.
I   have no patience any more and am tired of doing this. If anybody knows, 
let me know some way around or tips.
It would be really appreciated.

Taeseon

ps)

my os : fedora core 5
tv tuner and decoder : local barnd using cx2388x chipset

Re: [Zapping-misc] FC5 X86_64 Problems

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:39 -0400, romstev wrote:
> New install of FC5 and zapping from livina/extras (rpm). Received 
> following error on start-up:
>  Device does not support clipping or chroma-keying

Corrected. Capture mode works? Any other problems?

Michael

[Zapping-misc] FC5 X86_64 Problems

[<ro...@ne...>]

New install of FC5 and zapping from livina/extras (rpm). Received 
following error on start-up:

 Device does not support clipping or chroma-keying
 contact zap...@li...

  Note have ivtv 0.6.1 installed and card (pvr 150 mce) does work using 
Mplayer.

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Re: [Zapping-misc] Garbled output with zvbi-ntsc-cc

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:04 -0500, Foo Bar wrote:
> I've been using zvbi-ntsc-cc to watch/capture cc's, but today all the
> output is garbled. Some stations are more garbled than others, and
> some are putting "<ATTRIBUTE 24 46>" or similar in the output.

Libzvbi 0.2.19 replaced the bit slicer. Did you recently upgrade, and
zvbi-ntsc-cc worked before? I couldn't test this combination in 0.2.19
but it worked a few months ago and I'm not aware of changes possibly
causing this. Or did you upgrade the kernel or V4L2 driver?

Could you create a sample for me? Please download the libzvbi source
code,
  ./configure && make
as usual, then tune to a garbled station, run for ten seconds
  test/capture -v --sliced >sample 2>log
and send me the log and sample file.

Michael

[Zapping-misc] Garbled output with zvbi-ntsc-cc

[Foo B. <vic...@gm...>]

I've been using zvbi-ntsc-cc to watch/capture cc's, but today all the
output is garbled. Some stations are more garbled than others, and
some are putting "<ATTRIBUTE 24 46>" or similar in the output.
zvbi-ntsc-cc had worked flawlessly for awhile now, so I thought it
might be a signal quality issue. So, I took the cable from my machine
and ran it to a nearby TV which showed them just fine.

The machine isn't running X and is headless, so I can't check the
picture/signal quality with a viewer. Sorry.

Anyone had any similar issues?

Card: Hauppauge WinTV-PCI Model 190
ZVBI: 0.2.19

Re: [Zapping-misc] command line close caption capture

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 00:50 -0800, Michael Dale wrote:
> To capture the close captions stream I have been just running the
> following via the ivtv drivers
> #ivtvctl --set-vbi=cc
> #cat /dev/vbi > text_file
> #tail -f text_file ... take text every 30 seconds or so and put it
> into the db. 
> 
> This ofcourse does not work very well. I don't know if this is because
> the ivtv drivers are buggy or thats just what sliced cc looks
> like...at any rate with this method we get a good amount of
> gibberish..

The data is probably in V4L2 sliced VBI format
(http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec/x4610.htm) and on top of that still
contains multiple data streams (different languages, station name etc)
and various control codes. You need a caption decoder to get bare ASCII.

> but I am wondering if we could use one of the "testing" scripts for
> the zapping api to export the close caption text into the database?

Not this way, because I didn't have the time yet to add support for V4L2
sliced.

> something like 
> #ivtvctl --set-vbi=raw
> (from in vbi/test/)
> #cat /dev/vbi | ./decode > file.txt 
> where file.txt would just grow with clean close caption lines. 
> (the above does not work and craps out with  read_sliced: Assertion
> `(unsigned int) n_lines <= max_lines' failed.
> Aborted with "raw" mode and just hangs with "cc" mode...

zvbi-ntsc-cc -d /dev/vbi -c -p
should do what you want, using the V4L2 raw VBI API. Note versions
installed with libzvbi 0.2.18 and earlier are broken.

> is there an IRC channel you guys hang out in?

Nope.

Michael

[Zapping-misc] command line close caption capture

[Michael D. <da...@uc...>]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
hello, zapping....<br>
I am working a project to open up the cspan senate and house footage to
collective reuse, recontextualizing and open source meta-scripting (
visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu">http://metavid.ucsc.edu</a> for more info about the project)<br>
<br>
To capture the close captions stream I have been just running the
following via the ivtv drivers<br>
#ivtvctl --set-vbi=cc<br>
#cat /dev/vbi &gt; text_file<br>
#tail -f text_file ... take text every 30 seconds or so and put it into
the db. <br>
<br>
This ofcourse does not work very well. I don't know if this is because
the ivtv drivers are buggy or thats just what sliced cc looks like...at
any rate with this method we get a good amount of gibberish.. (i have
been able to reduce the gibberish to some degree via regular
expressions... but I am wondering if we could use one of the "testing"
scripts for the zapping api to export the close caption text into the
database? <br>
<br>
something like <br>
#ivtvctl --set-vbi=raw<br>
(from in vbi/test/)<br>
#cat /dev/vbi | ./decode &gt; file.txt <br>
where file.txt would just grow with clean close caption lines. <br>
(the above does not work and craps out with&nbsp; read_sliced: Assertion
`(unsigned int) n_lines &lt;= max_lines' failed.<br>
Aborted with "raw" mode and just hangs with "cc" mode...<br>
<br>
am I headed in the right direction? <br>
<br>
Any assistance you could provide would be greatly greatly appreciated,
thanks for your great work on zapping :) <br>
is there an IRC channel you guys hang out in?<br>
<br>
-michael<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<font size="-1"><a href="http://danm.ucsc.edu/%7Edale/">Michael Dale
</a><a href="http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab/"><br>
Social Computing Lab</a>
<br>
Graduate Student Research
<a href="http://danm.ucsc.edu/"><br>
DANM</a> at <a href="http://ucsc.edu">University of California Santa
Cruz</a></font>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Re: [Zapping-misc] DVD Video w/ Zapping?

[CJ K. <za...@ap...>]

Michael Schimek wrote:
> I cannot recommend Zapping for this job. Better record to a lossless
> interlaced format or something close enough, then edit, filter and
> compress with the best quality two-pass video and audio encoders
> available. I use transcode with xvid.

Okay, I'll have to clear some space somewhere and give that a go, then.
What do you recommend for the initial recording?  I've had some measure
of luck with xawtv in the past, but that's always a very touchy prog
to work with (at least it is for me).
 
> Librte is a dead end. Once replaced by a gstreamer interface Zapping
> should offer a lot more recording options. Sorry I can't promise a
> date.

Groovy.  No prob re: date, obviously.  Not like this is some dire need
and I'm paying you money or something.  :)  I'll keep my eyes open,
thanks for the response!

-CJ

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Re: [Zapping-misc] DVD Video w/ Zapping?

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:26 -0600, CJ Kucera wrote: 
> Hello, all.
> 
> I've been looking around for awhile now for a program which I can
> use to convert a bunch of my old VHS tapes to some kind of digital
> format, and it'd be especially nice to be able to convert them to
> a DVD.

I cannot recommend Zapping for this job. Better record to a lossless
interlaced format or something close enough, then edit, filter and
compress with the best quality two-pass video and audio encoders
available. I use transcode with xvid.

> I've been digging around the source trees for Zapping and RTE (I'm
> not sure exactly what gets defined where) without much luck, so I
> figured I'd ask here before I spent more time on it.  Is something
> like this possible?  Is it something that'd be relatively trivial
> to add given a few extra options in the ffmpeg backend?

Librte is a dead end. Once replaced by a gstreamer interface Zapping
should offer a lot more recording options. Sorry I can't promise a
date.

Michael

[Zapping-misc] DVD Video w/ Zapping?

[CJ K. <za...@ap...>]

Hello, all.

I've been looking around for awhile now for a program which I can
use to convert a bunch of my old VHS tapes to some kind of digital
format, and it'd be especially nice to be able to convert them to
a DVD.

Zapping looks very nice, and so far it's been the best of the bunch
that I've tried, but I'm a bit curious if it's possible to get more
options out of its ffmpeg backend, specifically with an eye to creating
the DVDs that I had mentioned.  From what I understand, the best video
format to use would be mpeg-2 (which looks like it's supported with
"mpeg2video" via my ffmpeg), and then AC3 sound (or PCM or whatever).
Zapping seems to only give me options for MPEG-1 or MPEG-4, depending
on my container type, and I seem to be perpetually bound to mp3 for
the audio source unless I choose AC3 for the container type as well,
in which case I'd have to re-multiplex the sound with the video later.
I'd rather avoid multiplexing if possible, since because this is
being sourced from VHS, synchronization issues wouldn't be that fun.

I've been digging around the source trees for Zapping and RTE (I'm
not sure exactly what gets defined where) without much luck, so I
figured I'd ask here before I spent more time on it.  Is something
like this possible?  Is it something that'd be relatively trivial
to add given a few extra options in the ffmpeg backend?

Thanks for any input you may have!

-CJ

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[Zapping-misc] Zapping on AMD64 tester wanted

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

Hi,

I got a bug report about a crash when taking a screenshot in Zapping (0.9.6
I presume) on AMD64. Can anyone confirm this?

Michael

Re: [Zapping-misc] Rivatv: Can't open /dev/video0

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:25 -0500, Chippy wrote:
> Hello, for the longest time zapping has not worked at all with rivatv.
> It used to, and I remember it had a much better picture than xawtv.
> Currently xawtv does work with rivatv.
> Any suggestions? Thanks.

How does zapping --device=/dev/video work?

Michael

[Zapping-misc] Rivatv: Can't open /dev/video0

[Chippy <ted...@ro...>]

Hello, for the longest time zapping has not worked at all with rivatv.
It used to, and I remember it had a much better picture than xawtv.
Currently xawtv does work with rivatv.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

$ zapping -d --xv-video-port=0

...
...
main.c:startup_zapping:1302
Initialize plugin /usr/lib/zapping/plugins/libscreenshot.zapping.so 0.8.0
screenshot.c:plugin_init:288
screenshot.c:plugin_init:299
main.c:startup_zapping:1313
main.c:main:726
main.c:main:743
main.c:main:760
xv_video_port 0x0
XVideo opcode 140, base 75, 150, version 2.2
No XVideo input port found
tveng25.c:2333:p_tveng25_open_device_file: open(): 2, No such file or 
directory
tveng1.c:2799:p_tveng1_open_device_file: open(): 2, No such file or directory
tveng.c:585:tveng_attach_device: The device cannot be attached to any 
controller

Re: [Zapping-misc] recording not possible

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:18 +0100, Karl-Hermann Ketteler wrote:
> The remaining problem is the recording which does not work. Starting
> zapping from a console the following error message occurs
> 
> ** (zapping:27184): WARNING **: Failed to load plugin: librte.so.1:
> Kann die Shared-Object-Datei nicht \xf6ffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis
> nicht gefunden
> 
> However rte-0.5.6 was sucessfully made and installed.

Running /sbin/ldconfig to update the /etc/ld.so.cache should help. For
some reason libtool doesn't do that automatically after installing
libraries.

Michael

Re: [Zapping-misc] Problema video

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

Hi Gaetano,

> ho installato zapping cvs in una distribuzione gentoo 2005.1 su un pc=20
> con processore amd sempron 2600 con scheda tv asus tv/fm 7135.
> Ci=C3=B2 premesso, mi succede che, se apro xine o mplayer o qualunque pla=
yer=20
> video, ritornando in zapping il video non compare. Per far funzionare il=20
> video devo riavviare il pc e riaprire zapping.
> Da cosa pu=C3=B2 dipendere, e come posso risolvere ?

(For the archive, this sounds like bug #1342718.)

Spiacente per il mio italiano difettoso. Potete vedere alcuni messaggi
di errore? Televideo funziona? Potete sentire il suono? Il video compare
quando esegui "zapping --no-xv-image" in una finestra terminale? Clic il
pulsante "Controlli" della barra strumenti. =C3=88 la luminosit=C3=A0 giust=
a?

Michael

[Zapping-misc] recording not possible

[Karl-Hermann K. <khk...@we...>]

After having looked for an TV - Application I think zapping is best
suited to my purposes. I've got the actual sources and installed them
upon my mandriva 2006 system.

After all the picture and tone are good.

The remaining problem is the recording which does not work. Starting
zapping from a console the following error message occurs

** (zapping:27184): WARNING **: Failed to load plugin: librte.so.1: Kann
die Shared-Object-Datei nicht \xf6ffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden

However rte-0.5.6 was sucessfully made and installed. 

Can anybody give a hint to me what is wrong?

Thanks in advance

==============
Karl-Hermann Ketteler
Angerweg 4/1
88677 Markdorf
==============

[Zapping-misc] Problema video

[Gaetano S. <g....@al...>]

Salve,
ho installato zapping cvs in una distribuzione gentoo 2005.1 su un pc=20
con processore amd sempron 2600 con scheda tv asus tv/fm 7135.
Ci=F2 premesso, mi succede che, se apro xine o mplayer o qualunque player=
=20
video, ritornando in zapping il video non compare. Per far funzionare il=20
video devo riavviare il pc e riaprire zapping.
Da cosa pu=F2 dipendere, e come posso risolvere ?
Grazie, Gaetano

Re: [Zapping-misc] zapping not seeing vbi problem solved, but......

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 15:33 +1000, Garry Kmieciak wrote:
> But that only works on zvbi-0.2.9 , I could not get zvbi-0.2.17 to make.
> I tracked down the error to loading a perl module  'XML/Simple.pm' not
> being installed on my machine. My question is, Is this a default module
> for perl in the latest OS, or will I need to install it on my upgrade. I
> am running perl-5.8.4.

I found it at http://search.cpan.org/search?query=XML::Simple

Actually you shouldn't need Perl at all, because it's only used to
rebuild some source files, and make is not supposed to do that.  I'll
see what I can do.  For now please untar 0.2.17 afresh and type this:

cd zvbi-0.2.17
sed s/\\.h:/xx:/ <src/Makefile.in >t
mv t src/Makefile.in
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Michael

Re: [Zapping-misc] Install Problems with vbi

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 17:56 +1000, Garry Kmieciak wrote:
> No package 'zvbi-0.2' found

Most likely pkg-config didn't look into /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.

> *** Could not find libzvbi >= 0.2.1.  The library is required
> *** for Teletext, caption/subtitles and OSD.  The latest version
> *** is available from http://zapping.sourceforge.net.  To compile
> *** Zapping without libzvbi run ./configure --without-zvbi

That's from a Zapping version between 0.9.5 and 0.9.7cvs2, but none I
released or from CVS, which all talk about libzvbi >= 0.2.9.

Must be spontaneous bit decay.

Michael

Re: [Zapping-misc] Install Problems with vbi

[Garry K. <fea...@do...>]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:56:48 +0200
Michael Schimek <msc...@us...> wrote:


> 
> I don't recall any version of Zapping requesting zvbi >= 0.2.1.
> 
> What exactly does the error message say?
As you can tell from my later post, I managed to get 0.2.9 to install, but am having troubles with it. But that doesn't matter. I am happy to try anything in my power to help this user friendly program get better and better. So I uninstalled and ran zapping configure, this is the output at the end of the configure:-

No package 'zvbi-0.2' found
*** Could not find libzvbi >= 0.2.1.  The library is required
*** for Teletext, caption/subtitles and OSD.  The latest version
*** is available from http://zapping.sourceforge.net.  To compile
*** Zapping without libzvbi run ./configure --without-zvbi

> 
> You could help testing.  I'll notify you when we have something.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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[Zapping-misc] zapping not seeing vbi problem solved, but......

[Garry K. <fea...@do...>]

Since my post yesterday asking for help on why zapping did not recognise that vbi was installed, I have tried many things to fix this. I eventually got zapping to see vbi if I configured vbi to install in /usr, instead of its' default. ie.
./configure --prefix=/usr

But that only works on zvbi-0.2.9 , I could not get zvbi-0.2.17 to make. I tracked down the error to loading a perl module  'XML/Simple.pm' not being installed on my machine. My question is, Is this a default module for perl in the latest OS, or will I need to install it on my upgrade. I am running perl-5.8.4.

As for running zvbi-0.2.9, it is a waste of time for me, I keep getting errors:-
Using video device '/dev/video0', display ':1.0', screen 0.
Querying frame buffer parameters from X server.
DMA not possible on screen 0.
Setup failed. Try -vv for details.

And when I run zapping -vv it makes no difference, there is no 'extra' debugging output. Maybe I should compile zapping with debugging support when I do get zvbi-0.2.17 installed.

Gazza.

Re: [Zapping-misc] With Permission - A Newbie HowTo

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:07 +1000, Garry Kmieciak wrote: 
> I am interested in writing a Newbie HowTo for Zapping. Since I've had a
> few troubles, I'd like to share these with other newbies in hopes that
> it will make it easier for them.

That's a good idea.  I'd like a section on every distro and driver in
the Zapping docs but I can't try many software and hardware
configurations myself.  A V4L2 HowTo combining all the info floating
around the 'net would also be nice.  Or more about driver installation
and troubleshooting on http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/

My hope is that one day distros take care of hardware probing, load the
appropriate precompiled drivers, provide Zapping binaries, and Zapping
works out of the box for most users without going through docs or
preferences first.

> I've made a very rough draft at 
> http://members.dodo.net.au/~featherball/Zapping/Zapping_a_Little_Help_For_Newbies.html

> What I will point out is a few modules that need to be loaded for
> zapping to work. I spent days wondering why zapping wouldn't build,
> till I figured out I didn't have 'unload Module' support enabled in my
> kernel.

What was the problem?

> Next is the zvbi package. I had nothing but troubles with zvbi-0.2.17.
> It wanted a perl module that I did not have, and for some reason it
> uses wget whilst it is compiling, so if I am not on the net at the
> time, it won't work properly.

There's a Perl script generating the src/network_table.h file from an
online XML file.  I always include generated sources in tarballs, so you
shouldn't have any problems.  Can you reproduce this?  I just tried
0.2.17 and none of the generated sources were rebuilt by make.

> To compile I found that I had to configure it into /usr instead of
> its' default directory, because for some reason zapping did not see it
> in /usr/local.

At build time that may happen because zvbi-0.2.pc is not in the search
path of "pkg-config --modversion zvbi-0.2". Adding
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
should help.

At runtime it may happen because the dynamic linker can't find
libzvbi.so.  You could add /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or /etc/ld.so.conf, see man ld.so.

Changing the --prefix is ok when you remember to do it every time.
Otherwise you may end up with different versions in different
directories and ./configure may use the wrong one.

> At the moment I keep getting the following error when I try vbi :-
>
> Using video device '/dev/video0', display ':1.0', screen 0.
> Querying frame buffer parameters from X server.
> DMA not possible on screen 0.
> Setup failed. Try -vv for details.
>
> This by the way is an error output by zvbi,

By zapping_setup_fb, a helper application called by Zapping.
As the blurb says: "zapping_setup_fb -vv" will give more details.

> saying that it can't use 'Overlay Mode'. I've got dri support and I've
> added support for v4l in my xorg.conf file,

Which doesn't seem to work however, because Zapping wouldn't call
zapping_setup_fb then.

> but the v4l driver only slows my X server down massively and did not
> help.

Perhaps dga and v4l are incompatible with 2D and/or 3D graphics
acceleration.  If so, overlay is impossible.  It's a pity but unless you
have a very slow or power constrained machine you aren't losing much.

> First I ask for official backing. If the authors agree, I would like to
> make this a comprehensive document that eventually will be part of the
> zapping package.
> 
> If I get the go ahead, I will ask for anyone that has faced a problem
> to give me an email with the problem and the fix, and I will incorperate
> it into this document.

How about a Wiki?

> My skills are limited, I can't program except as a novice in perl, and
> I would like to give something back to Linux, and I am keen to help
> however I can with this project.

Excellent choice. :-)

Michael

Re: [Zapping-misc] Apologies, Last Post.

[Michael S. <msc...@us...>]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 12:50 +1000, Garry Kmieciak wrote:
> Sorry for my last post, I feel like a complete dickhead. 
> 
> I've been trying to get half a dozen other things working, lirc being
> one of them. In my last post I wanted to make a HowTo for Zapping, yet
> the page I wrote was half lirc problems. So it is obvious that if anyone
> did read it, they would have put me in the nut house category.

You also installed DocBook? :-)

> I've also realised this is for real programers, not lame users, So I
> think it best that I unsubscribe and leave the experts in peace.

Your feedback is important.  Please stay.

> One last note, I did finally get teletext working, for some reason
> when I first downloaded zapping the pages lead me to version 0.9.6,
> yet today when I looked, I found 0.9.7cvs3 and sourceforge said this
> was made in August. So I screwed up again.

0.9.6 is the official version, 0.9.7cvs3 a snapshot for tests.  I must
release more often...

> Thanks for a great program, and I'll leave you in peace.

I would really appreciate your help.  There's a lot you could do
besides coding.

Michael

[Zapping-misc] Apologies, Last Post.

[Garry K. <fea...@do...>]

Sorry for my last post, I feel like a complete dickhead. 

I've been trying to get half a dozen other things working, lirc being one of them. In my last post I wanted to make a HowTo for Zapping, yet the page I wrote was half lirc problems. So it is obvious that if anyone did read it, they would have put me in the nut house category.

I've also realised this is for real programers, not lame users, So I think it best that I unsubscribe and leave the experts in peace.

One last note, I did finally get teletext working, for some reason when I first downloaded zapping the pages lead me to version 0.9.6 , yet today when I looked, I found 0.9.7cvs3 and sourceforge said this was made in August. So I screwed up again.

Thanks for a great program, and I'll leave you in peace.

Gazza.