Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 doesn't stream live video

[lyon]

I'm trying to stream video on websites like livestream.com using the Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 external capture card. To connect to the TV, I use three A/V splitters for the two audio and video jacks in the DVC. In each respective splitter, I connect both the component from a game console and an A/V cable, and the A/V cable runs to the television.

When I preview this in a program like Cheese, it works flawlessly, the video is perfectly in-sync with the television. When I try to connect through the livestream studio however, the video flickers on for a split second, and then disappears. The audio streams perfectly (after the recording source has been set to the DVC 100 in padevchooser). This is interesting because the exact opposite occurs in Windows. In Windows, the DVC can stream video, but has trouble streaming audio. If we could get the video working properly, that would be one more leg-up on windows, especially in the streaming and video/multimedia community.

I used sudo rmmod uvcvideo to remove my laptop's internal webcam to avoid having the video sources competing with eachother (I thought that might have been what was causing the video fail in livestream).

Here is the output of dmesg|grep video
[ 0.600407] pci 0000:01:00.0: Boot video device
[ 13.398896] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 13.844921] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device HP Webcam (064e:a101)
[ 13.847501] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 128.860394] em28xx #0: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video1 and /dev/vbi0
[ 265.541907] usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo

As you can see, it detects the webcam, the DVC 100, and then I disabled the webcam.

Here is the output of lsmod|grep video
videobuf_vmalloc 7844 1 em28xx
videobuf_core 21188 2 em28xx,videobuf_vmalloc
videodev 43360 4 saa7115,em28xx,v4l2_common
v4l1_compat 16804 1 videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 13344 1 videodev
video 23612 0
output 3680 1 video

There is no additional dmesg when the stream fails on livestream.

Another potential cause is the fact that livestream is flash-based, and flash may have trouble getting the video information from the DVC 100 driver.

Running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, with Kernel Linux 2.6.31-16-generic

I'm filing a bug report as it could be a bug in the DVC 100 driver (seeing as the video works fine in the Windows driver)

[Chris Guirl (thelusiv-gmail)]

This is an old bug I see, but I had the DVC 100 working in 9.10 fairly well to stream from a camcorder to ustream.tv. I was using the latest version of WebCamStudio (not the Ubuntu packaged version, the one from their web site). While WCS had its issues, would mess up on me sometimes, and I had to manually fix my flash settings in Firefox every time I started to allow ustream, it did work.

Now I can't even get em28xx to load in 10.04...guess I need to post a bug report on that soon. Posted in the forums already here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581897

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updated Karmic's, Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!