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Old 01-Jul-2009, 23:24
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Default ati 7500 aiw capture card - capture from Xvideo device?

Hello,

I am trying to capture video/stills from my ati 7500 aiw capture card. Currently, the video and audio both work quite well with xawtv but I ran into problems when I discovered that one couldn't capture from Xvideo devices, which is what my card shows up as. Is there some way to make my card show up as a v4l device or some way to work around this problem? I hoped that since it is being displayed on my screen, somehow I could record the video.

Thanks,
Ben.


OpenSUSE 11.0

(info from ~>man xawtv)

Code:
SUPPORTED HARDWARE / INTERFACES
       v4l    video4linux - the linux video capture API.


       v4l2   video4linux  two - new, improved capture interface which fixes a
              number of v4l design bugs.


       bktr   FreeBSD / OpenBSD driver for bt848/878 grabber cards.


       Xvideo X11 Extension for video devices.  Note that the Xvideo extension
              does  support  overlay  only, you can't capture images/movies if
              the Xvideo extension is used.  On the other  hand  this  is  the
              only  way to scaled video overlay (i.e. fullscreen without black
              borders @ 1024x748) if both hardware and xfree86 driver  support
              it.   See  README.xfree4  for  more  details and hints on how to
              setup Xvideo.
Code:
ben@linux-jmbg:~> xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.25.20-0.4-default)
looking for available devices
port 73-73                              [ -xvport 73 ]
    type : Xvideo, video overlay
    type : Xvideo, image scaler
    name : ATI Radeon Video Overlay
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