[ivtv-users] green video from cat /dev/video?

[Martin Dauskardt]

> ivtv-0.10.6-132.el5
This is a very old driver

> Well I attempted to:
> 
> # ivtv-tune -d /dev/video0 -c 2
> /dev/video0: 55.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)
> # cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

I guess you are capturing radio?

There was a long existing bug in the driver which resulted in green video when 
muting the video for using radio. It was fixed in the 1.x branch in 2007:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/d06214cbc6eb
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/19ba168f41b1