[Wylug-discuss] Has Mandriva regained the polish? was Re: [Wylug-help] Edimax Print Server Configuration

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:30, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I'm thinking of issues such as the one I've just been fighting.  I use
> > xawtv to monitor recording from my analogue camcorder.  In MDV it just
> > worked.  In Fedora I have to find the framebuffer address and pass it to
> > v4l - and it doesn't stick.  I have to do it every day that I want to
> > record.
>
> I'm never convinced that changing distros ever really ends up solving these
> little niggles.  I'm more convinced about changing distros because of
> grander direction differences.  Partly out of convincing students not to
> reinstall and change distro with every slightest problem.
>
> What capture card do you use?  Have you tried tvtime instead of xawtv?
>
It's a DC10+, Zoran based.

I've had no luck at all setting up tvtime.  For one thing, asking it to change 
input device doesn't seem to do anything at all.  It reminds me of the time 
when I couldn't get xawtv running, about 3 years ago, and it took someone to 
actually send me the conf file for his before I could get it to run properly.  
I've looked for something similar for xawtv, but I'm not having much success.  
I tried editing a line in default.tvtime.xml to <option name="V4LDevice" 
value="/dev/video1"/> but still when I started tvtime it was looking at 
video0.

I've used xawtv for years, and although I have seen the occasional crash 
causing a corrupted record, it has been rare.

Anne

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