Bug 2117

Summary: Coded timer limits length of video stream
Product: Fedora Reporter: Simon Lewis <simon.lewis>
Component: staging-kmodAssignee: 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

Description Simon Lewis 2011-12-30 12:02:37 CET
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...
Comment 1 Thorsten Leemhuis 2011-12-30 16:10:24 CET
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
Comment 2 Thorsten Leemhuis 2011-12-30 16:11:24 CET
Forgot: I'd be willing to apply this patch if upstream applies it. Please reopen this bug in that case.