Re: Is Video Capture Supported
Chris Brandstetter wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> I have a question, I just recently laid my hands on a SBUS Video
> Capture card for my Ultra 1. It has a phillips chip on it, now my
> question, is it supported in any shape or form under Linux?
>
> Chris B
> www.inventivecomm.com
Well, it's supposedly supported - there is a "vfc" driver. However, I
too have one of these cards (matches your description exactly) and I
never got it to do anything useful under Linux. I was able to detect
that I was sending PAL video to it but I couldn't actually capture
anything other than a grey rectangle. I found a program written for
SunOS which was supposed to capture an image, and I think that the vfc
driver was supposed to be compatible with this (definitely NOT
Video4Linux). I tried to contact the author of the driver (he's listed
in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sbus/char/vfc*) but I never got a response.
It's a pity, because this looks like quite a nice little card, and the
price was right :-)
If you want, mail me privately and I'll send you a copy of the capture
program, maybe it will work for you :-)
- Daniel
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* Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering
* University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * d.franklin@ieee.org
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