Re: video4linux: planB (fixed)
On 22 Apr, this message from dylan echoed through cyberspace:
>> This could be hasciicam trying an unsupported video format. PlanB is
>> very limited, especially compared to bttv, to which most capture
>> programs are geared.
>>
>> You can enable debugging in PlanB at compile time to get a kernel log
>> message when an unsupported format is requested (or you might already
>> get that; please check dmesg).
>>
>
> thanks for the ideas.... i will play around with the driver next time
> i compile a kernel... perhaps it would be best to contact the author
> of hasciicam, and see what he thinks.
>
> great work on the planB driver... perhaps someday it will be
> completely supported? :)
It is (almost) completely supported. The hardware has not many features,
compared to more advanced chipsets like bttv (that's what I meant say).
About the only major feature not yet working is Videotext. As for
formats, evresthing the hardware is known to support is also supported
and made available by PlanB. But unfortunately many apps ask for bttv
formats _not_ supported by PlanB (like most of the yuv formats), and
fail to gracefully fallback to other formats.
And since format conversion is a no-no in the kernel, there's not much I
can do.
Cheers
Michel
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