From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com ([209.85.215.52]:38251 "EHLO mail-la0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751082AbaIAU2D (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:28:03 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id ty20so6596790lab.39 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5404D729.4030202@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:29:29 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbmsgU2Now6RmZXI=?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lorenzo Marcantonio CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: strange empia device References: <20140825190109.GB3372@aika.discordia.loc> <5403358C.4070504@googlemail.com> <54033620.4000105@googlemail.com> <20140831154127.GA15276@aika.discordia.loc> <5404B781.9020702@googlemail.com> <20140901190301.GA3762@aika.discordia.loc> In-Reply-To: <20140901190301.GA3762@aika.discordia.loc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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)