[AG-TECH] Solving PAL <> NTSC with VIC

[Justin Binns]

I'm working with the RPMs available for RedHat 7.x.  In
/usr/local/ag/lib/video-config, there's an entry for each camera as
follows:

<capture_card bandwidth="800" device="v4l- BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) /dev/video1" enabled="true" encoding="h261" frame_rate="25" input="Composite1" number="0" purpose="MAIN" quality="75" video_mode="NTSC"></capture_card>

As this line is dynamically generated from the 'setup-config' stuff (as I
understand it), yours may or may not have the video_mode="NTSC" part, but
you could probably add a 'video_mode="PAL"' portion - honestly, I'm not
certain (and it's hard to test, because we of course don't have PAL
sources ;-).  If that doesn't work, I'm not sure what else to try, though
I'm sure someone's solved this problem - hopefully one of the other
European nodes can provide some insight?

Justin

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Bart Kerver wrote:

> Justin
> 
> > There should be a file 'video-config' somewhere in /usr/local/ag.  It's an
> > XML description of the configuration for the various video feeds.  In
> > there is where 'NTSC' is specified, and it *should* be as easy as changing
> > 'NTSC' to 'PAL'.
> 
> What version of the software are you using?
> There is no such parameter in the /lib/video-config file.
> If you look at the DTD (/usr/local/ag/apps/vrm/config.dtd) that belongs 
> to this XML file, a setting for NTSC/PAL is no part of it.
> 
> Even adding this by hand doesn't work.
> 
> Any other clues?
> 
> Regards,
> Bart
> 
>