(I added this after I had originally posted)
I just thought of something. I the correct modules (installed at boot or with modprobe) are not installed you could have all sorts of trouble. Correct?
webcam in my /.webcamrc device = /dev/video0 well what if it's not /dev/video0
and it's something else? Mandrakes automagic may be stepping on the correct function of this it could actually be /dev/video something else?
Thoughts?
(original post starts here)
Ok I have installed 7.2 and everytihing is working excpet the jpg I am trying to ftp is a bad scan. Like a bad TV tv picture with horizontal lines of color and no other data. This is regardless of the source Television or Composite1 (NTSC.) someting with the grab function is messed up.
In Drake 8.0 I could get the composite video working but never the tuner. The FTP
was totally broken. Same thing in Slackware 8.0
The ordering of the /.webcamrc file seems to be unimportant in the Drake 7.2 install.
I reversed the [grab] and [FTP] sections so I have a picture to upload before I make the ftp connection and the FTP functions.
The ftp issue in 8.0 maybe do to changes in the basic ftp program called under the 2.4.X kernel is one thought I have had. webcam never establishes a ftp session all though the picture grabbed is perfect.
It would be wonderful to have so decent man pages or docs for xawtv but they are very poor. Are changes have been made to the xawtv suite not reflected in what information which out there? I have a suspicision that may be the case.
I feel lucky I have a spare computer to test this on. So I haven't messed up my working boxes. I have found by looking at the Hauppauge website that many of their cards have issues with VIA chipsets, SIS chipsets and severl different brands of video cards.
I think the biggest problem is that the people many who write many apps and modules for Linux don't tell you want they got it working on configuration wise. What works so perfectly for them and a few friends may not function at all for many others.
Letting us know the Hardware config is as important as listing dependencies it think.
The Box I have been testing on is a IBM Aptiva with 64 megs of memory, a on board
crystal audio card and and ATI Parge II with at RTL8139 pci network card and a Hauppauger WinTV GO running Mandrake Linux 7.2 with a AMD K-6 II 200mhz.
I am still looking for a Linux replacement for my Win98 box running ChillCam to serve
My Web-Cam single jpg images every 5 seconds. But after 2 days of solid tweaking and testing with about 10 hours sleep I don't see this happenig soon. Frustrating. I don't see this happening soon. Linux can't do what Win98 can with a simple app.
I am going to keep pluggin at this.
I'll keep you posted.