[PlanetCCRMA] Video4Linux

Brad Kligerman bkliger@club-internet.fr
Mon Nov 10 15:22:01 2003


> I think the error message might be referring to the video card not
> having overlay support (ie: it cannot blast video bits directly to the
> frame buffer).

Oh yeah, that overlay.

>  What happens if you try "xawtv -noxv"?
>Is that the complete output you get out of xawtv?

Full message.

[........]$ xawtv -noxv
This is xawtv-3.81, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-6.ll.rh90)
/dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid
argument
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid
argument
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid
argument
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid
argument
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid
argument

/brad.