linux-media.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Frank Schäfer" <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>
To: Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@logossrl.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange empia device
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:29:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5404D729.4030202@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140901190301.GA3762@aika.discordia.loc>


Am 01.09.2014 um 21:03 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:14:25PM +0200, Frank Schäfer wrote:
>
>> What's the other device using this vid:pid and which hardware does it use ?
> The previous generation of the tool:
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/RoxioEasyVHStoDVD
>
> ... an easycap DC60+ clone. Doubly hating it since I bought is sure that
> it would have been supported!
>
>> The big task is the integrated decoder. Makes no fun without a datasheet. :/
> I presume that with decoder you mean the composite to YUV translator... 
Yes.

> With the datasheet is too easy :D 
:D

> strange thing is eMPIA says that linux
> is supported for some of their chip. But of course the 2980 isn't even
> advertised 
It had been advertised in past, but they removed all informations about
it from their website. :-(

> and probably they only give you docs if you buy 100K pieces:(
...and sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement).

>
>> Thanks, looks like the other em2980 we have seen (Dazzle Video Capture
>> USB V1.0).
> Please tell if there are other tests or captures you need.
At the moment, no.

>  By the way,
> even on Windows, transfer seems flaky. If the bus is not perfectly
> idle or there is some nontrivial CPU load often it loses transfer sync
> and the image get "split" (probably an isoc transfer get lost and it
> doesn't number the packets or something). 
Not our problem. ;-)

Regards,
Frank


> Had the same problem with the
> other chinese camera I used (USB suckitude knows no limits:P)



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-25 19:01 strange empia device Lorenzo Marcantonio
2014-08-31 14:47 ` Frank Schäfer
2014-08-31 14:50   ` Frank Schäfer
2014-08-31 15:41     ` Lorenzo Marcantonio
2014-09-01 18:14       ` Frank Schäfer
2014-09-01 19:03         ` Lorenzo Marcantonio
2014-09-01 20:29           ` Frank Schäfer [this message]
2014-09-01 23:58   ` Andy Walls
2014-09-02  6:28     ` Lorenzo Marcantonio
2014-09-02 11:43       ` Andy Walls
2014-09-02 16:22       ` Frank Schäfer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5404D729.4030202@googlemail.com \
    --to=fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com \
    --cc=l.marcantonio@logossrl.com \
    --cc=linux-media@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).