Re: [PATCH] zoran: more fixes

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:18:29 -0700 (PDT), Trent Piepho wrote:
> I figured out what was keeping tvtime from being able to switch inputs.  It
> was a problem with restarting capture after stopping it like I thought.
> The fix ended up being simple, but finding what exactly was the problem was
> a pain.
> 
> With this patch tvtime is working ok.  You will of course need to make sure
> the horizontal resolution is small enough to fit in the v4l capture buffer.
> 
> mplayer works for uncompressed capture.  mplayer's v4l2 driver has a flaw in
> that it doesn't set format/width/height in one single call to S_FMT, but tries
> to set them one at a time.  So if you request 160x120 RGB32, it will first try
> S_FMT 640x480 RGB32.  While 160x120 will fit in a 128k buffer, 640x480 wont,
> so the S_FMT fails.  The zoran driver could do a better job of handling S_FMT
> calls that aren't possible.

I can confirm that, with this patch, I can now change the input in
tvtime. Great work Trent!

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare

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