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From: Andy Furniss on 26 Apr 2010 16:27 Davey wrote: > v4l2: unable to open '/dev/video0': No such file or directory > v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Bad file descriptor > v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. > ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported > ============= > === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! > === > Cannot open demuxer. > > Exiting..." > > When I do it for real, I will select a better out file name, naturaally. > > But what file format does it not recognise? mjpeg? Avi? It doesn't > specify! It's probably just a confusing message because it isn't getting any input from v4l2.
From: Davey on 26 Apr 2010 17:38 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:27:06 +0100, Andy Furniss wrote: > Davey wrote: > >> v4l2: unable to open '/dev/video0': No such file or directory >> v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Bad file descriptor >> v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. >> ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported >> ============= >> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! >> === >> Cannot open demuxer. >> >> Exiting..." >> >> When I do it for real, I will select a better out file name, naturaally. >> >> But what file format does it not recognise? mjpeg? Avi? It doesn't >> specify! > > It's probably just a confusing message because it isn't getting any > input from v4l2. Ok. I'll report back when I next connect the Dazzle. -- Davey.
From: Nix on 27 Apr 2010 12:02 On 26 Apr 2010, Andy Furniss stated: > ps ax and see if mplayer is still running if it is you mean ps -C mplayer right?
From: Andy Furniss on 28 Apr 2010 07:09 Nix wrote: > On 26 Apr 2010, Andy Furniss stated: >> ps ax and see if mplayer is still running if it is > > you mean > > ps -C mplayer > > right? Well that's way more typing :-) I just got used to using ps ax, most stuff I've kill recently are games - and they typically run a binary with a different name from what I typed to start them.
From: Davey on 28 Apr 2010 11:41
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:09:15 +0100, Andy Furniss wrote: > Nix wrote: >> On 26 Apr 2010, Andy Furniss stated: >>> ps ax and see if mplayer is still running if it is >> >> you mean >> >> ps -C mplayer >> >> right? > > Well that's way more typing :-) > > I just got used to using ps ax, most stuff I've kill recently are games > - and they typically run a binary with a different name from what I > typed to start them. Whichever is better, as I mentioned earlier, mplayer is still running when it craps out, it just doesn't have what it needs to work. I have to stop it deliberately. But thank you both for teaching me something new. -- Davey. |