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Ah, thought that might be the answer. No bother, they can all stay at the same res.

cheers

ant

I'm running a single-chip bt848a (with a mux) and three cameras going thru it. I can get monitors on all three to work in ZM, if and only if they have exactly the same colour-depth and resolution settings. If I change the rez, I get horribly distorted images, like it's lost sync or something. If I ...

Jay - you're a star! I don't even remember messing with that option ;) That's sorted it nicely for me. I can even get three cameras running off the one bt848 device (with some reservations, but I'll put that in a different post).

ant

Nope, I'm still a bit flummoxed! It doesn't make a lot of sense - ZM is doing its thing quite happily (hence timestamped black rectangles), and so is the bttv/V4L stuff (coz I can see it in xawtv). In fact, with multiple channels, I can see ZM switching channels in xawtv! Somewhere between the two ...

Wotchamate Phil,

Sorry - it's a single device, with four MUX'd inputs, so one /dev/video device, four channels.

cheers

ant

Last night I had ZM 1.18.1 running on my gentoo 2.6.4-rc1 kernel with my BT848A quad input capture card quite nicely. I'd got a single monitor happily generating streams and stills and even doing the odd bit of recording. Flushed with enthusiasm, I hooked up another two cameras to the capture card ...