Ubuntu Multimedia :: Winfast PVR2000 Under 10.10 - Get The Video Working With A Motion Daemon
Mar 14, 2011
I'm currently using a Leadtek Winfast PVR2000 capture card with a webcam connected via the composite port. I'm attempting to get the video working with a motion daemon. I used to have the identical setup under Debian and everything worked out of the box. I'm now trying to get this working under Ubuntu 10.10 Server.
When I first boot up the PC, it works great. Randomly (anywhere between 1 and 10 days) I stop getting video. If I kill all motion instances and relaunch it, I'm only able to get a solid green output. I've tried killing off every motion instance again and used other command line apps that just end up giving me a solid black image. After a reboot everything begins working again.
It's not a huge deal if the video feed dies once and a while, but is there any way to avoid rebooting the whole PC? Is there any way to figure out why the capture card can't be accessed after the video feed dies?
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FFmpeg version SVN-r24953, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
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Sometimes, both on Gnome MPlayer and Movie Player, videos clips won't play. I use mainly MKV file format and quite often, AVI. I have also installed Ubuntu-Restricted-Extras.
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