[mpeg2] Re: mpex experience

["greg" <greg.wickham@grangenet.net>]

Hi Andrew,

I haven't yet been able to capture an MPEG stream from the card using
Linux.

If I try and read from /dev/video1 only 0x00 is returned. /dev/video0
works as expected.

This is using linux-2.6.0-test3, saa7134-20030813, on a dell precision
450 with 1G of ram.

Any assistance appreciated.

Cheers,

   -Greg

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] -----Original Message-----
] From: mpeg2-bounce@linuxtv.org
] [mailto:mpeg2-bounce@linuxtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew de Quincey
] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:21 AM
] To: Thomas Sparr; Werner John
] Cc: mpeg2@convergence.de
] Subject: [mpeg2] Re: mpex experience
]
]
] I would really recommend the MPEX cards. Previously we had
] used the KFIR
] cards. The kfir ones were pretty useless... drifted out of
] sync within 5
] hours of encoding start, died on signal loss, required a
] complete reboot
] every week to keep them going.
]
] The MPEX ones however, seem fine so far.
]
] As for drivers, check out the saa7134 driver at
http://bytesex.org/ I'm adding support for the MPEX card to it right
now. Works under kernel
>2.4.20. The version on that page isn't complete yet, however. I'm still
working on the MPEX-specific audio support right now (BTW: I'm just
doing the
encoder bit, borrowing bits from the original driver at linuxtv.org).