Re: dvgrab make test pattern?

"Dan Dennedy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.kino.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to make it easy for someone else to replicate the kernel panic I
> found: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317227
>
> currently I need 2 firewire cameras/ports, or 1 fw and a .dv file I can play in
> a loop.  except sometimes "play in a loop" doesn't happen.  and not everyone has
> a .dv file handy, and somehow attaching even a 5mb .dv sample file seems rude.
> plus it is one more step in an already annoying setup.
>
> So it would simplify things a bit if I could do dvgrab --testpattern and have it
>  generate some sort of dv stream.  a big blue screen is fine. color bars good too.

I would either need to ship it with 4 DV files (PAL std, PAL wide,
NTSC std, NTSC wide) or add support for DV encoding from picture
source, which is not trivial and offers little return value.
Therefore, for something ad hoc like debugging I suggest:

ffmpeg -loop_input -i some.jpeg -f s16le -i /dev/zero -target pal-dv -
| dvgrab -stdin ...

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