| Summary: | Coded timer limits length of video stream | ||
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| Product: | Fedora | Reporter: | Simon Lewis <simon.lewis> |
| Component: | staging-kmod | Assignee: | Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | simon.lewis |
| Priority: | P5 | ||
| Version: | 15 | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | GNU/Linux | ||
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| Attachments: | patch to remove timer | ||
Please send your patch upstream. There are people that can decide if that's a good way to fix the problem you encounter; and then the problem will be fixed for everyone, not only for users of RPM Fusion. For details see: http://www.linuxdriverproject.org A simple post of your patch to this list should do the trick: http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view/Main/MailingLists Forgot: I'd be willing to apply this patch if upstream applies it. Please reopen this bug in that case. |
Created attachment 770 [details] patch to remove timer There seems to be an unnecessary timer in easycap_ioctl.c which limits the length of the video stream. Whilst digitally archiving a number of old videos originally recorded on a sony Hi8 camera the digital output from the EasyCap DC60 kept stopping after a few minutes. I am not a developer or programmer so I am not sure of the professional method to solve this but the attached patch did the trick...