[Techtalk] VHS to DVD

[David Sumbler]

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:40 +0200, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> On 19-07-12 13:33, David Sumbler wrote: 
> > I get:
> > [16097.348750] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 
> > [16097.355277] em28xx: Video interface 0 found
> > [16099.384138] em28xx #0: V4L2 video device registered as video0
> > If I enter 'cat /dev/video0' I get a continuous stream of gibberish,
> > which is what I would expect. But I can't get VLC to display
> > anything at all. I had a look at the V4L wiki, as suggested by
> > Carla. Neither of the devices I bought is listed as being supported,
> > so perhaps this is the problem. David 
> Can you get us the output of "dmesg | grep -e em28 -e v4l "
> That might give us more to work from

I get:

[   16.115175] 	931efdf58bd83af8d0578a6cc53421675daf6d41 Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' into staging/for_v3.6
[   16.115176] 	2cefabc00ffdc1f22f960df946ae41b163081d5e v4l: Export v4l2-common.h in include/linux/Kbuild
[   16.215371] em28xx: New device   @ 480 Mbps (eb1a:2860, interface 0, class 0)
[   16.215374] em28xx: Video interface 0 found
[   16.215375] em28xx: DVB interface 0 found
[   16.215469] em28xx #0: chip ID is em2860
[   16.304707] em28xx #0: board has no eeprom
[   16.376584] em28xx #0: found i2c device @ 0x4a [saa7113h]
[   16.404833] em28xx #0: Your board has no unique USB ID.
[   16.404835] em28xx #0: A hint were successfully done, based on i2c devicelist hash.
[   16.404837] em28xx #0: This method is not 100% failproof.
[   16.404838] em28xx #0: If the board were missdetected, please email this log to:
[   16.404839] em28xx #0: 	V4L Mailing List  <linux-media at vger.kernel.org>
[   16.404841] em28xx #0: Board detected as EM2860/SAA711X Reference Design
[   16.484013] em28xx #0: Identified as EM2860/SAA711X Reference Design (card=19)
[   16.868589] saa7115 0-0025: saa7113 found (1f7113d0e100000) @ 0x4a (em28xx #0)
[   17.636340] em28xx #0: Config register raw data: 0x00
[   17.684215] em28xx #0: v4l2 driver version 0.1.3

David