Not getting video - Two different capture cards, Please Help

mhufstetler · Post by **mhufstetler** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:28 pm

Hi Everyone! Thanks in advance for your help!

I have a Hauppauge Wintv 44372 rev D123

and a

WE-1404P four port (I think) capture cards.

I have two brand new cameras that I have tested working and can not seem to find the right 'Source' or have other settings wrong for them. The other issue is I am not sure if I have drivers for the cards loaded. I am running on Ubuntu 8.04.2 and the install seemed to go flawless and the from all the tutorials and forums and google I have gone through I can not seem to find anything on issues with the actual capture cards.

In short, how do I verify that my capture (DVR) cards are configured properly or have drivers?

I am also unsure what i should see in the dev directory to identify what devices are actually providing data?

Thanks Again.

Mark

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:27 pm

on some of thouse cards you must use raw feed rather than mpeg2 run this

Code: Select all

 ls /dev/ | grep video

if you get something like this

video0
video1
video24
video25

then use 24 and 25 respectively [/code]

mhufstetler · Post by **mhufstetler** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:47 pm

Excellent thanks. I will try that right away. Do usb web cams show in the same way?

Thanks Again,

Mark

mhufstetler · Post by **mhufstetler** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:43 am

I have one camera (CameraB1), Source Type Local, Function: Monitor, Device Path: /dev/video1, Device Channel: 1, Device format: auto, capture palette: RGB24, Capture width: 352, Capture height: 288 That has a Blue screen and hows the time clock at the top. All of the rest (Video2...4) just show broken links.

Does this really meant hat I have a video feed for CameraB1? If not what is a reliable way to find or identify video feeds? I just verified (again) that the camera is putting out a very nice clear image.

Thanks,

Mark

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:55 am

all devices on linux show up in the directory /dev
"ls /dev/" lists all devices them
" | grep video " only shows this with vidoe in the name

anyways
go check you zoneminder logs to see if there are any errors if you dont know where they are try /var/log or /tmp if there not there say what linux distro you are using

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:51 am

also try changing Device Channel