From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 07:20:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A791FF5F for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:20:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@bitfrost.no) Received: from mta.bitpro.no (mta.bitpro.no [92.42.64.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677622563 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lockless.no (mail.lockless.no [46.29.221.38]) by mta.bitpro.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42ADD7A1E5; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:19:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lockless.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF448EFFCB; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:20:28 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.6.4 (20090625) (Debian) at lockless.no Received: from mail.lockless.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.lockless.no [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Kqd3qJ-w4IVA; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:20:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (cm-176.74.213.204.customer.telag.net [176.74.213.204]) by mail.lockless.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E2A88EFFC8; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:20:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <527204E5.7060101@bitfrost.no> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:21:09 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky Organization: Bitfrost A/S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130522 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henry Hu Subject: Re: Regression in Webcamd References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:20:00 -0000 On 10/31/13 07:00, Henry Hu wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I tried to use my TV stick (Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE) that once I > used successfully, and found that it does not work properly. > > The scanning works fine, but when playing the video, it seems like that the > data fed to players are problematic. I tried mplayer/vlc/mythtv and all of > them show similar problems: the video is mangled (with correct blocks here > and there) and the audio is intermittent. mplayer says a52 decoding error > and mpeg2 decoding error. > It's not a signal problem, because it works flawlessly with older versions > of webcamd. > I tried various versions of webcamd and here is the result: > 322747 (3.11.0.2) does not work > 322982 (3.10.0.7) does not work > 312661 (3.9.0.5) works > 310291 (3.9.0.1) works > 300026 (3.6.0.1) works > 277800 (3.0.0.1) works > So it seems like that there is a regression between 3.9.0.5 and 3.10.0.7. > I'm willing to help with debugging this problem. > > My system is a recent current under amd64. > Hi, Maybe you can try this: Remove the "media_tree" directory from "3.11.0.2". Then copy the "media_tree" from "3.9.0.5" to "3.11.0.2" right after "make extract". Just ignore any failing patches, or remove them from "patches/do_patch.sh" BTW: There will soon be a new version of webcamd, using the latest Linux sources. Thanks! --HPS