[FFmpeg-devel] Issue with Capture between SVN -r8222 and SVN -r8634

Trent Piepho xyzzy
Thu May 17 21:22:05 CEST 2007


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mike Martin wrote:
> [...]
> > As undocumented by beginning would it be
> >
> > Ffmpeg -tvstd -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 etc
> As per ffmpeg's manual, "-tvstd" wants a parameter:
>  > `-tvstd standard'
>  >    Set television standard (NTSC, PAL (SECAM)).
> So, try
> ./ffmpeg -tvstd PAL -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 ...
> (instead of "PAL", use the name of the video standard you want to set.
> It must be a video standard name recognised by the v4l2 driver)

For v4l2, valid formats are 'PAL-BG', 'SECAM-L', 'NTSC-M', etc.  Just plain
PAL or NTSC isn't enough.

It might be nice to make NTSC an alias for NTSC-M and PAL an alias for
PAL-BG.




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