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diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/easycap/README b/drivers/staging/media/easycap/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..796b032384bd --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/media/easycap/README @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ + + *********************************************************** + * EasyCAP USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio, Model DC60 * + * and * + * EasyCAP002 4-Channel USB 2.0 DVR * + *********************************************************** + Mike Thomas <rmthomas@sciolus.org> + + + +SUPPORTED HARDWARE +------------------ + +This driver is intended for use with hardware having USB ID 05e1:0408. +Two kinds of EasyCAP have this USB ID, namely: + + * EasyCAP USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio, Model DC60, + having input cables labelled CVBS, S-VIDEO, AUDIO(L), AUDIO(R) + + * EasyCAP002 4-Channel USB 2.0 DVR, having input cables labelled + 1, 2, 3, 4 and an unlabelled input cable for a microphone. + + +BUILD OPTIONS AND DEPENDENCIES +------------------------------ + +Unless EASYCAP_DEBUG is defined during compilation it will not be possible +to select a debug level at the time of module installation. + + +KNOWN RUNTIME ISSUES +-------------------- + +(1) Intentionally, this driver will not stream material which is unambiguously +identified by the hardware as copy-protected. Normal video output will be +present for about a minute but will then freeze when this situation arises. + +(2) The controls for luminance, contrast, saturation, hue and volume may not +always work properly. + +(3) Reduced-resolution S-Video seems to suffer from moire artefacts. + + +INPUT NUMBERING +--------------- + +For the EasyCAP with S-VIDEO input cable the driver regards a request for +inputs numbered 0 or 1 as referring to CVBS and a request for input +numbered 5 as referring to S-VIDEO. + +For the EasyCAP with four CVBS inputs the driver expects to be asked for +any one of inputs numbered 1,2,3,4. If input 0 is asked for, it is +interpreted as input 1. + + +MODULE PARAMETERS +----------------- + +Three module parameters are defined: + +debug the easycap module is configured at diagnostic level n (0 to 9) +gain audio gain level n (0 to 31, default is 16) +bars whether to display testcard bars when incoming video signal is lost + 0 => no, 1 => yes (default) + + +SUPPORTED TV STANDARDS AND RESOLUTIONS +-------------------------------------- + +The following TV standards are natively supported by the hardware and are +usable as (for example) the "norm=" parameter in the mplayer command: + + PAL_BGHIN, NTSC_N_443, + PAL_Nc, NTSC_N, + SECAM, NTSC_M, NTSC_M_JP, + PAL_60, NTSC_443, + PAL_M. + +In addition, the driver offers "custom" pseudo-standards with a framerate +which is 20% of the usual framerate. These pseudo-standards are named: + + PAL_BGHIN_SLOW, NTSC_N_443_SLOW, + PAL_Nc_SLOW, NTSC_N_SLOW, + SECAM_SLOW, NTSC_M_SLOW, NTSC_M_JP_SLOW, + PAL_60_SLOW, NTSC_443_SLOW, + PAL_M_SLOW. + + +The available picture sizes are: + + at 25 frames per second: 720x576, 704x576, 640x480, 360x288, 320x240; + at 30 frames per second: 720x480, 640x480, 360x240, 320x240. + + +WHAT'S TESTED AND WHAT'S NOT +---------------------------- + +This driver is known to work with mplayer, mencoder, tvtime, zoneminder, +xawtv, gstreamer and sufficiently recent versions of vlc. An interface +to ffmpeg is implemented, but serious audio-video synchronization problems +remain. + +The driver is designed to support all the TV standards accepted by the +hardware, but as yet it has actually been tested on only a few of these. + +I have been unable to test and calibrate the S-video input myself because I +do not possess any equipment with S-video output. + + +UDEV RULES +---------- + +In order that the special files /dev/easycap0 and /dev/easysnd1 are created +with conveniently relaxed permissions when the EasyCAP is plugged in, a file +is preferably to be provided in directory /etc/udev/rules.d with content: + +ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="easycap_rules_end" +ATTRS{idVendor}=="05e1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0408", \ + MODE="0666", OWNER="root", GROUP="root" +LABEL="easycap_rules_end" + + +MODPROBE CONFIGURATION +---------------------- + +The easycap module is in competition with the module snd-usb-audio for the +EasyCAP's audio channel, and its installation can be aided by providing a +file in directory /etc/modprobe.d with content: + +options easycap gain=16 bars=1 +install easycap /sbin/rmmod snd-usb-audio; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install easycap + + +ACKNOWLEGEMENTS AND REFERENCES +------------------------------ +This driver makes use of information contained in the Syntek Semicon DC-1125 +Driver, presently maintained at http://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver/ +by Nicolas Vivien. Particularly useful has been a patch to the latter driver +provided by Ivor Hewitt in January 2009. The NTSC implementation is taken +from the work of Ben Trask. + |