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Hello,

I live in a country where the standard is SECAM K1.
Trying to use VLC in order to watch TV I can not succeed to make it work.

When I go into the Media menu, try to open a DirectShow peripheric, then choose "Peripheric property" and "Tuner property" box checked:
I am able to see the standard selection SECAM_K1 for the peripheric property, but then in the Tuner property window I don"t have this choice only SECAM_K...
I saw a fix for this but I dont know if VLC 1.1.0 has it:
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 67318.html

Why the SECAM_K1 standard is not display in the selection for the Tuner Property windows ?

Regards,

Emmanuel

The fix is only on Linux, as I see it.

Thanks Jean-Baptiste for this update.

Any chance to have the fix performed on the win32 sources?

BR,
Emmanuel

Well, I am afraid you might need to do it yourself...

When I go into the Media menu, try to open a DirectShow peripheric, then choose "Peripheric property" and "Tuner property" box checked:
I am able to see the standard selection SECAM_K1 for the peripheric property, but then in the Tuner property window I don"t have this choice only SECAM_K...

Why the SECAM_K1 standard is not display in the selection for the Tuner Property windows ?

AFAIK this choice is given by the DirectShow drivers.
So update to the latest DirectX 9 runtime (even if you are running Windows 7, install DirectX 9 which is a complement of DX 10 and does not replace it, and which is missing by default) and also update the drivers of your device.

I did not succeed to get the SECAM_K1 selection choice by installing DirectX 9...

I tried also to use vlc on linux version 1.0.6 but same thing:

I would like to ask you about one fix developped regarding the standard selection (PAL, SECAM, ...).
I live in a country where the standard is SECAM_K1 and I use vlc 1.0.6 under linux:

Under Fedora 12:
vlc-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686
vlc-core-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686

By using the cvlc command to catch the tuner card signal and setting standard in the command line I did not see the SECAM K1, so I wonder if the fix has been committed or not in this release or if I have to patch the sources:

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=co ... 7c342b7236

I used:

$ cvlc -vv v4l2:// :v4l2-dev=/dev/video0 :v4l2-adev=hw.1,0 :v4l2-tuner-frequency=207250 :v4l2-standard=13 ....

I dont see SECAM K1
....

[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: Trying libv4l2 wrapper
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: opening device '/dev/video0'
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: V4L2 device: BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878)) using driver: bttv (version: 0.9.18) on PCI:0000:00:0b.0
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: the device has the capabilities: (X) Video Capure, ( ) Audio, (X) Tuner, ( ) Radio
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: supported I/O methods are: (X) Read/Write, (X) Streaming, ( ) Asynchronous
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: device support raw VBI capture
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video input 0 (Television) has type: Tuner adapter *
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video input 1 (Composite1) has type: External analog input
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video input 2 (S-Video) has type: External analog input
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video input 3 (Composite3) has type: External analog input
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 0 is: NTSC
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 1 is: NTSC-M
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 2 is: NTSC-M-JP
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 3 is: NTSC-M-KR
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 4 is: PAL *
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 5 is: PAL-BG
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 6 is: PAL-H
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 7 is: PAL-I
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 8 is: PAL-DK
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 9 is: PAL-M
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 10 is: PAL-N
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 11 is: PAL-Nc
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 12 is: PAL-60
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 13 is: SECAM
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 14 is: SECAM-B
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 15 is: SECAM-G
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 16 is: SECAM-H
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 17 is: SECAM-DK
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 18 is: SECAM-L
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: video standard 19 is: SECAM-Lc
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: tuner 0 (Television) has type: Analog TV, frequency range: 44000,0 kHz -> 958000,0 kHz
[0xb7108988] v4l2 demux debug: tuner 0 (Television) frequency: 207250,0 kHz
...

Thanks by advance for you replies

BR
--
Emmanuel

I may have to repost this reply in a new linux space forum ...