Using nVidia card instead of webcam fails

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I use motion and palantir and a couple of usbcams to keep an eye on things. That setup works great, but sometimes it would be nice to get better resolution. Connected a camcorder to the video-in connector on my nVidia card. Using xawtv I get a nice and clear picture, but motion fails and palantir gives a couple of error messages.

Did a 5 second palantir capture test and got these results.

First test with an usbcam goes fine like this:

Jul 1 17:38:42 config Default config file `-usr-local-share-palantir-palantir.conf' not found Jul 1 17:38:42 main -- palantir 2.6 starting -- Jul 1 17:38:42 main Definitions for 0 devices found Jul 1 17:38:42 main No serial port specified Jul 1 17:38:42 main No named pipe specified Jul 1 17:38:43 video Card: STV0680 (-dev-video0) Jul 1 17:38:43 video Capabilities: 1 (capture ) Jul 1 17:38:43 video Size: (160x120)-(320x240) Jul 1 17:38:43 video Channel no. 0 ('STV Camera') tuners: 0, flags: 0, type: 2, norm: 47097 Jul 1 17:38:43 video brightness: 32768 hue: 32768 colour: 32768 Jul 1 17:38:43 video contrast: 32768 whiteness: 32768 Jul 1 17:38:43 video depth: (24) palette: 4 Jul 1 17:38:43 video Actual capture box is 320x240 (requested 320x240) Jul 1 17:38:43 video Video buffer size: 467568, frames: 2 Jul 1 17:38:43 main *** Running a 5-second performance test Jul 1 17:38:43 main Capture thread started Jul 1 17:38:43 video JPEG compression buffer resized to 64000 Jul 1 17:38:48 main Capture thread stopped - 63 frames in 5.03 s (12.53 f-s)

Second test with the camcorder-nVidia goes bad:

Jul 1 17:40:23 config Default config file `-usr-local-share-palantir-palantir.conf' not found Jul 1 17:40:23 main -- palantir 2.6 starting -- Jul 1 17:40:23 main Definitions for 0 devices found Jul 1 17:40:23 main No serial port specified Jul 1 17:40:23 main No named pipe specified Jul 1 17:40:23 video Card: rivatv video (-dev-video0) Jul 1 17:40:23 video Capabilities: 25 (capture overlay chromakey ) Jul 1 17:40:23 video Size: (64x32)-(704x576) Jul 1 17:40:23 video Channel no. 0 ('Composite') tuners: 0, flags: 0, type: 2, norm: 0 Jul 1 17:40:23 video Channel no. 1 ('S-Video') tuners: 0, flags: 0, type: 2, norm: 0 Jul 1 17:40:23 video brightness: 32768 hue: 32768 colour: 32768 Jul 1 17:40:23 video contrast: 32768 whiteness: 32768 Jul 1 17:40:23 video depth: (24) palette: 4 Jul 1 17:40:23 video Actual capture box is 320x240 (requested 320x240) Jul 1 17:40:23 video Video buffer size: 6635520, frames: 4 Jul 1 17:40:23 main *** Running a 5-second performance test Jul 1 17:40:23 main Capture thread started Jul 1 17:40:23 video CMCAPTURE - mmap failed, should revert to read(): Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:23 video CMCAPTURE - mmap failed, should revert to read(): Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:23 video CSYNC: Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:23 video CMCAPTURE - mmap failed, should revert to read(): Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:23 video CSYNC: Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:23 video CMCAPTURE - mmap failed, should revert to read(): Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:23 video CSYNC: Invalid argument ... ... ... about 380 lines per second with the same two error messages. ... ... ... Jul 1 17:40:28 video CMCAPTURE - mmap failed, should revert to read(): Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:28 video CSYNC: Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:28 video CMCAPTURE - mmap failed, should revert to read(): Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:28 video CSYNC: Invalid argument Jul 1 17:40:28 main Capture thread stopped - 968 plus 1 frames in 5.03 s (192.68 f-s)

Any ideas of what is wrong and how to fix it would be useful.

TIA

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