[AG-TECH] Fedora C2 & Ospreys

[Andrew Daviel]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Fred Dech wrote:

> i believe that i have a configuration problem aside from AG2.2 with these
> Osprey100 cards.
>
> when i run xawtv, should i be able to see the output of one of these
> cards?  i've tried using the -device option but haven't found
> anything it would accept.

xawtv = Linux ??

If so, there should be entries in the syslog and the bttv module should be
installed (lsmod |grep bttv) . There's install options for bttv.o to set
the card type, BTW, if it's not autodetected (affects which port is assigned to TV, s-video
etc.)

May need  "alias char-major-81 bttv" in /modules.comf (should be set by
kudzu) to install module automatically

Cards should also show up with "lspci", e.g.
00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
 Capture (rev 02)

Cards should show up (nowadays) in /dev/video0, video 1 etc
so try xawtv -c /dev/video0. I think it still defaults to  /dev/video
which is now a directory.

It should be possible to run multiple copies of xawtv one for each card.
I use it a lot for testing video (and for watching TV at home ....)

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