GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160749
[v4lsrc] gst-recorder "v4l source error" failure during bt848 capture
Last modified: 2005-01-11 09:22:18 UTC
I start gst-recroder and configure a capture from a bt848 v4l video source and an alsa audio source. As soon as I hit record, I get a stream of error beebs coming at (I assume) 24 beeps per second. The error dialog says: Element Video (video4linux/raw) Source gave an error Could not get/set settings from/on source At this point nothing will stop it (close box, ^C) and indeed, the entire X session becomes unresponsive due to the costant deluge of error beeps. So I have to switch to a virtual console and killall gst-recorder to get it to stop. Once I have done that, the beeping stops right away, but it still takes about 15 seconds for the desktop to start responding to events again.
I can confirm this, I'm trying to debug it now but I'm not having much luck yet...
OK, that was a bad night, but it's fixed now. I've emulated errors at random places and was able to kill all hangs that I could find. If you see more hangs, let me know.