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moorsey and wbrack,

I have played a little with my TW6800 based card and the device driver settings.
Changing the h_delay value from 3 to 133 in souce file tw68-video.c (line 20) , I can now see images without black stripes. Stability issue remain.......more playing needed.....

antov,
mplayer works also without X, it can use vesa compatible or svga video cards
(even EGA!!) see documentation at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/.
It is very important to understand where the problem is : device driver or zm settings.
Sometimes also cameras, cables and connectors make troubles

antov,

if you have installed mplayer, you can try to do the followings in tw68-tw68-v2 directory:

rmmod tw68.ko
make run

to see if your card and camera work out of zm.

If this works for you (like it worked for me) it means that you have to tune up your settings on zm.

Thank you guys ! At last I managed to see some images from my refurbished TW6800 based card also with zm using the tw68 device driver . Working settings for zm and my camera are: Device format PAL I Capture palette BGR 24 Capture Witdth 384 Capture Height 288 CAPTURES_PER_FRAME = 2 With bigger ...

mooresey, Some bad news, I'm afraid. According to your lspci, your board is using TW6800 chips, while all of the other people posting have TW6802 or TW6805 chips. On my 4-chip TW6805 board, for instance, I get: [bill@bbsuper tw68-v2]$ lspci | grep 68 06:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Techwell ...