Palette: 5 - 32bit RGB *SOLVED*

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So I have successfully tested an old Hauppauge WinTV card I had laying around in xawtv using the composite input. This said, I wanted to get a camera set up on it but it seems I am having difficulties getting zoneminder to use the correct color palette. For every palette at 320x240, I only get a black box with 0 (zero) fps.

When looking at the output of zmu it shows a 32bit RGB palette, which doesn't seem to be an option for ZoneMinder.

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zmu -q -v -d /dev/video0 

Video Capabilities
  Name: BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878))
  Type: 47
    Can capture
    Can tune
    Does teletext
    Overlay onto frame buffer
    Can clip
  Video Channels: 4
  Audio Channels: 0
  Maximum Width: 768
  Maximum Height: 480
  Minimum Width: 48
  Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
  X Offset: 0
  Y Offset: 0
  Width: 320
  Height: 240
Picture Attributes
  Palette: 5 - 32bit RGB
  Colour Depth: 32
  Brightness: 32768
  Hue: 32768
  Colour :32768
  Contrast: 32768
  Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
  Name: Television
  Channel: 0
  Flags: 1
    Channel has a tuner
  Type: 1 - TV
  Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 1 Attributes
  Name: Composite1
  Channel: 1
  Flags: 0
  Type: 2 - Camera
  Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 2 Attributes
  Name: S-Video
  Channel: 2
  Flags: 0
  Type: 2 - Camera
  Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 3 Attributes
  Name: Composite3
  Channel: 3
  Flags: 0
  Type: 2 - Camera
  Format: 1 - NTSC

I attempted to manually change the value in the DB for the pallet to "5" but no joy.

This is the current settings for the device.

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mysql> select `Name`, `Type`, `Function`, `Enabled`, `Device`, `Channel`, `Format`, `Width`, `Height`, `Palette`, `ImageBufferCount`, `WarmupCount`, `StreamReplayBuffer` from `Monitors` where `Name` = 'New';
+------+-------+----------+---------+-------------+---------+--------+-------+--------+---------+------------------+-------------+--------------------+
| Name | Type  | Function | Enabled | Device      | Channel | Format | Width | Height | Palette | ImageBufferCount | WarmupCount | StreamReplayBuffer |
+------+-------+----------+---------+-------------+---------+--------+-------+--------+---------+------------------+-------------+--------------------+
| New  | Local | Monitor  |       1 | /dev/video0 |       1 |      1 |   320 |    240 |       6 |               10 |          10 |                100 | 
+------+-------+----------+---------+-------------+---------+--------+-------+--------+---------+------------------+-------------+--------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Does anyone know if there something I can do to wrap the video device, or create a loopback device with a userspace daemon to resample the video in a palette usable by zoneminder?


UPDATE:
This is a v4l2 issue which appears to have been addressed in the 1.24.0 rc-1 2737 version. I apologise for not checking the code for this before making my post -- but hopefully this information will be helpful to someone else as well. =)