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I used to be able to capture video from my VHS recorder by using my AVerMedia DVD EZMaker PCI Deluxe capture card and VLC.

I guess I did some subsequent recompilation of VLC or ffmpeg, the thing is now when I need to capture some video I cannot.

This is how my system (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn) successfully detects the card on startup:

Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.328697] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.2.0
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.328941] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.328950] ivtv0: Autodetected AVerMedia EZMaker PCI Deluxe card (cx23416 based)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.330133] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0f.0 (0014 -> 0016)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.330148] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.330160] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.445251] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.445315] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,E
CP,DMA]
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.510893] cx25840' 2-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.521665] wm8739 2-001a: chip found @ 0x34 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.526525] ivtv0: Registered device video1 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.526554] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.526581] ivtv0: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.526610] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.526613] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: AVerMedia EZMaker PCI Deluxe
Dec 21 12:12:36 micasa kernel: [ 50.526631] ivtv: End initialization

Now, when I play the tape and try to display it in VLC (PVR tab), nothing is showed. This is the output of 'vlc -vvv':

[00000442] main playlist debug: adding playlist item `pvr://' ( pvr:// )
[00000442] main playlist debug: creating new input thread
[00000539] main input debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000539] main input debug: thread 2985319312 (input) created at priority 0 (input/input.c:265)
[00000539] main input debug: `pvr://' gives access `pvr' demux `' path `'
[00000539] main input debug: creating demux: access='pvr' demux='' path=''
[00000540] main demuxer debug: looking for access_demux module: 0 candidates
[00000540] main demuxer warning: no access_demux module matched "pvr"
[00000539] main input debug: creating access 'pvr' path=''
[00000541] main access debug: looking for access2 module: 7 candidates
[00000541] pvr access debug: Using video device: /dev/video0.
[00000541] pvr access debug: ivtv driver version 00.00.06
[00000541] main access debug: using access2 module "pvr"
[00000542] main private debug: pre-buffering...
[00000542] main private debug: received first data for our buffer
[00000542] main private debug: pre-buffering done 723967 bytes in 0s - 3450 kbytes/s
[00000539] main input debug: creating demux: access='pvr' demux='' path=''
[00000543] main demuxer debug: looking for demux2 module: 81 candidates
[00000543] ffmpeg demuxer debug: couldn't guess format
[00000543] ps demuxer warning: this does not look like an MPEG PS stream, continuing anyway
[00000543] main demuxer debug: using demux2 module "ps"
[00000541] pvr access warning: Unimplemented query in control.
[00000539] main input debug: `pvr://' successfully opened
[00000543] ps demuxer warning: garbage at input, trying to resync...

Could anybody please help me to decipher those traces?