Video acquisition problem with xawtv

[pecorfr]

Hi all,

I'd like to acquire s-vhs videos with my old s-vhs camera and convert them in MPEG or DivX under Kubuntu Hardy 8.04. I connect the camera's s-video output to my PC's s-video input and I start xawtv, then I change the source "Television" to "S-VIDEO" and I can see the image grabbed by my s-vhs camera into the xawtv display window. I type the output file name and choose the right output file format (.AVI), the sampling. When I try to record, xawtv crashes after a cupple of seconds. Then, I started xawtv in a command line session in order to get back the eventual error messages and I receive the following :


fp@bureau-linux:~$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24-19-generic)
xinerama 0: 1024x768+0+0
X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
Major opcode of failed request: 137 (XFree86-DGA)
Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: WARNING: framebuffer size mismatch
v4l2: me=1024x768 v4l=0x0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=M MAP): Succès
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=M MAP): Succès
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=M MAP): Ressource temporairement non disponible
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=16;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory= MMAP): Ressource temporairement non disponible
oss: read: Erreur d'entrée/sortie


"Ressource temporairement non disponible" means "Resource temporarily unavailable" and "Erreur d'entrée/sortie" means "I/O error".

There is a problem but I don't have a clue of what that really means.

Any help is welcome.

[Detonate]

Re: Video acquisition problem with xawtv

I always use VLC. Never had any problem capturing and converting files.