xawtv and 64 bit LINUX systems...

xawtv and 64 bit LINUX systems...

[Gregg Germain]

Hi all,

  I'm a newbie to xawtv and I'd like to install it on my Fedora Core 10, 
64 bit system.

Is xawtv-3.95.tar.gz  the package that I should use? will it work with 
64 bit systems?

thanks

Gregg

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Re: xawtv and 64 bit LINUX systems...

[Jackson Yee]

Xawtv should work fine on 64 bit systems. I've got a gentoo-amd64
system doing fine with an ImpactVCB card.

If you're running Fedora, you probably already have Xawtv available through Yum:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

Otherwise, one of the packages from Dag should probably work:

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/xawtv/

Regards,
Jackson Yee
The Possum Company
540-818-4079
me@gotpossum.com

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Gregg Germain <saville@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I'm a newbie to xawtv and I'd like to install it on my Fedora Core 10, 64
> bit system.
>
> Is xawtv-3.95.tar.gz  the package that I should use? will it work with 64
> bit systems?
>
> thanks
>
> Gregg

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Re: xawtv and 64 bit LINUX systems...

[Gregg Germain]

Jackson Yee wrote:
 > Xawtv should work fine on 64 bit systems. I've got a gentoo-amd64
 > system doing fine with an ImpactVCB card.

 > If you're running Fedora, you probably already have Xawtv available 
 >through Yum:

Indeed it is available through the fedora repo!  I should have looked 
there first.  thank you very much!

I installed it but I can see I have much more work to do. I'm not sure 
what to do about these error messages:

[gregg@Ragnar ~]$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
xinerama 1: 1280x1024+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Oops: can't load any font

thanks!

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Re: xawtv and 64 bit LINUX systems...

[Jackson Yee]

Yes, that's a common error with XawTV. Try

xawtv -nodga

to disable dga and see what you get.

If your card is capable of higher resolutions than 320x240, you should
try TVTime as well. TVTime is capable of a much nicer picture than
XawTV, but will not work with more limited cards.

Regards,
Jackson Yee
The Possum Company
540-818-4079
me@gotpossum.com

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Gregg Germain <saville@comcast.net> wrote:
> Indeed it is available through the fedora repo!  I should have looked there
> first.  thank you very much!
>
> I installed it but I can see I have much more work to do. I'm not sure what
> to do about these error messages:
>
> [gregg@Ragnar ~]$ xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64)
> xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
> xinerama 1: 1280x1024+0+0
> WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
> /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Oops: can't load any font

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