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I agree. The difficult part is that detecting the precise error would require a bit of digging into the v4l interface. Looking at the v4l2 interface code in xawtv, and tvtime, I don't think it would be that difficult to build a v4l2 input handler. The enemy of course is time ;) However, I do want to...

I'm currently reading through the coding standards for vlc. I'm thinking about writing either a patch, or a seperate access module for v4l2.

Yes, with the exception of the pvr access module. The v4l access module uses the v4l interface, not, v4l2. For example, tvtime uses VIDIOCMCAPTURE for v4l and VIDIOC_QBUF for v4l2. vlc uses VIDIOCMCAPTURE. --excerpt from tvtime... if( vidin->isv4l2 ) { if( ioctl( vidin->grab_fd, VIDIOC_QBUF, &vi...

I've done a bit more research and I'm thinking that this is definitely a v4l2 compatibility issue.

Any thoughts?

I can see that this question has already been asked a dozen times, but, nobody ever replies to it. Well, here goes: When I try to start a vla capture from my Video4Linux device, I get the following error: 00000269] v4l demuxer error: chroma selection failed Now, after searching for hours, I found th...