SVideo input signal on BT878 card, how to set the channel?

[Red devil]

Hi!

I installed the RPM of VideoLAN on my fresh Fedora Core 3 box yesterday.
Using some GNOME chat/XawTV programs I checked if my Canon powershot camera was working with the SVideo on my Leadtek TV Card (with the famous BT878 chipset). It gave a pretty nice picture so this works fine.

Moreover I tested whether I could stream a Mpeg file over my network using Uni- and Multicast. This also worked!

After this, I tried to reach the Canon camera from VLC player and subsequently stream it. When I used Capture Device the option is available to select a /dev/video device. I tried some channel settings but they didn't work, i get a blurry black image when I hit OK.

I also tried to use the commandline option to directly stream using the commandline:

vlc -vvv v4l:/dev/video:norm=pal:frequency=543250:size=640x480:channel=0:adev=/dev/dsp:audio=0 --sout '#transcode {vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=3000,ab=256,vt=800000,keyint=80,deinterlace}:std{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.20.30.40}' --ttl 12

I played around with the channel option, but this didn't work either.
Does anybody have an idea to reach the different channels of my TV-Card?

Thanks in advance

[Red devil]

^^

No one??

[northwind]

Yeah the documentation is kind of non-existing on that subject. Apparently nobody has the need to watch more than the default channel.
I am trying to get to the composit channel.

Finally I succeded (the tension is mounting) but keep in mind that you will need another channel ( composit != s-video )

Here is my startcommand:
vlc v4l:/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:channel=1

This activated the composit channel select.
I assume that channel 2 will be the s-video.

If I find out how to specify this in the interface I will let you know

Karsten

[nemesa12]

I've nearly the same problem... I can't find my svideo input in vlc. Please let me know if you find it!!

Thanks!

[ByteOfTheFox]

for this you need to use the WIN TV Source Selector from the hauppauge website.

bye

hermann