Video Capture Station

Video Capture Station Set up for 2010 FSOSS

• Hardware: DELL Inspiron 6400 Laptop
  • Main Memory: 2048MB
  • 160GB Harddisk - share between Window7 and Fedora13

OS Installation

• Install from Fedora 13 64bit DVD - Kernel version: 2.6.33.3-85
• run yum update after initial installation
• reboot system - updated kernel version:2.6.34.7-56

Video Capturing Application Installation

• download freeseer - latest version 1.9.7 to /home/fsoss/Downloads directory (on the Fedora 13 laptop)
• install freeseer:

[fsoss@fsoss2 ~]$ cd
[fsoss@fsoss2 ~]$ tar xvfz Downloads/freeseer-1.9.7.tgz
freeseer-1.9.7/
freeseer-1.9.7/index.html
freeseer-1.9.7/release_notes.txt
freeseer-1.9.7/src/
freeseer-1.9.7/src/makefile
freeseer-1.9.7/src/__init__.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/LICENSE
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/stop_red_button.png
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/freeseer_logo.png
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/headphones.png
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/record_red_button.png
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/freeseer_ui_qt.ui
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/freeseer_about.ui
freeseer-1.9.7/src/forms/resource.qrc
freeseer-1.9.7/src/freeseer
freeseer-1.9.7/src/backend/
freeseer-1.9.7/src/backend/__init__.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/backend/gstreamer.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/modprobe.d/
freeseer-1.9.7/src/modprobe.d/vga2usb.conf
freeseer-1.9.7/src/framework/
freeseer-1.9.7/src/framework/logger.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/framework/core.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/framework/__init__.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/framework/qt_area_selector.py
freeseer-1.9.7/src/framework/config.py
freeseer-1.9.7/.gitattributes
freeseer-1.9.7/README.txt
freeseer-1.9.7/LICENSE
freeseer-1.9.7/pkg/
freeseer-1.9.7/pkg/freeseer.spec
freeseer-1.9.7/setup.py
freeseer-1.9.7/.gitignore
freeseer-1.9.7/tools/
freeseer-1.9.7/tools/transcode_em.sh
freeseer-1.9.7/tools/bump_version.py
[fsoss@fsoss2 ~]$

[fsoos@fsoss2 ~]$ cd freeseer-1.9.7/src

Video Capturing Hardware driver Installation

• install vga2usb driver
• configure vga2usb loadable module parameters