input

• Type: Integer
• Range / Valid values: 0 - 7, 8 = disabled
• Default: 8 (disabled)
• Option Topic

Input channel to use expressed as an integer number starting from 0. Should normally be set to 1 for video/TV cards, and 8 for USB cameras.

This parameter is really used only with video capture cards that has more than one input.

However if you set the input number to e.g. 1 for a USB camera (ov511 or pwc driver) motion writes an error message back. If you set it to 8 it does not give you any warning.

If you have a video capture card you can define the channel to tune to using this option. If you are using a USB device, network camera or a capture card without tuner you should set the value to the default 8.

Many TV tuner cards have the input channels: TV Tuner = 0, Standard composite video = 1, S-VHS = 3. Other have TV=0, composite video 1= 1, composite video = 2, S-VHS = 3. It is recommended to set the parameter to 8 for USB cameras as your first try. For video capture cards input 1 is normally the composite video input.

Comments

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Note that "input 0" was needed for our setup to work. Video Card = Leadtek Winfast VC100 XP - auto detected by Fedora 5, no need to install any drivers manually. With "input 0" - we just got blue screen - Clinton Chee -

-- ClinronChee - 16 May 2006

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