Hi Doug,<br>
<br>
Thank you for the release. I'm hoping to give it a try soon, that is if
the building is not in lockdown mode tomorrow because of the labor day
weekend. Is there anything in particular I need to be aware of, or
would the interface be identical which the calls behind the scenes will
call V4L2 drivers?<br>
<br>
Proshanta<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Douglas Kosovic</b> <<a href="mailto:douglask@itee.uq.edu.au">douglask@itee.uq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Proshanta,<br><br>> Thank you for the tip about reloading the video capture modules, but I<br>> have tried to use tvtime to verify that the card still works after the<br>> green screen. So I think the reboot solves more of an AG issue than a
<br>> driver issue. However, as Doug pointed out it could be the manner in<br>> which the AG toolkit uses a compatibility tool for V4L2 instead of the<br>> natives, for very good reason (namely users with Quickcams will have
<br>> difficulties as V4L2 support is still beta). I believe he will be<br>> releasing a possible native V4L2 controls for the AG in the coming<br>> week, which may help in what I'm currently faced with.<br><br>tvtime uses the native V4L2 API of the cx88 driver while vic uses the
<br>older V4L API and thus the V4L compatibility layer of the cx88 driver.<br><br>I've rebuilt vic with V4L2 grabber code that you could try, it can be<br>found in:<br> <a href="http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~douglask/v4l2_vic/">
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~douglask/v4l2_vic/</a><br><br>Just unpack v4l2_vic.tar.gz and copy 'vic' to one of the following:<br> ~/.AccessGrid/local_services/VideoProducerService/<br> ~/.AccessGrid/local_services/VideoService/
<br><br>Although both the V4L and V4L2 grabber code can coexist in the same vic<br>binary, I only built the V4L2 code, because the AGTK uses the VIC_DEVICE<br>env variable to tell vic which device to use (e.g '/dev/video1') and no
<br>way to specify which one of V4L or V4L2 should be use.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br>Doug<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>