Regression in Webcamd

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 10/31/13 07:00, Henry Hu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I tried to use my TV stick (Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE) that once I
> used successfully, and found that it does not work properly.
>
> The scanning works fine, but when playing the video, it seems like that the
> data fed to players are problematic. I tried mplayer/vlc/mythtv and all of
> them show similar problems: the video is mangled (with correct blocks here
> and there) and the audio is intermittent. mplayer says a52 decoding error
> and mpeg2 decoding error.
> It's not a signal problem, because it works flawlessly with older versions
> of webcamd.
> I tried various versions of webcamd and here is the result:
> 322747 (3.11.0.2) does not work
> 322982 (3.10.0.7) does not work
> 312661 (3.9.0.5) works
> 310291 (3.9.0.1) works
> 300026 (3.6.0.1) works
> 277800 (3.0.0.1) works
> So it seems like that there is a regression between 3.9.0.5 and 3.10.0.7.
> I'm willing to help with debugging this problem.
>
> My system is a recent current under amd64.
>

Hi,

Maybe you can try this:

Remove the "media_tree" directory from "3.11.0.2". Then copy the 
"media_tree" from "3.9.0.5" to "3.11.0.2" right after "make extract". 
Just ignore any failing patches, or remove them from "patches/do_patch.sh"

BTW: There will soon be a new version of webcamd, using the latest Linux 
sources.

Thanks!

--HPS