gstreamer-devel Digest, Vol 3, Issue 64

[Larry Honig]

I have a WinTV HVR950Q which works fine. The device needs a firmware  
download at initialization time; I generally do a shell script as  
follows before running gst-launch with a v4l2src element.
--
$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
$ sleep 1
$ v4l2-ctl -d 0 --set-standard ntsc
sleep 1
$ v4l2-ctl -d 0 -i 2
--
This wakes the USB device up and transfers the firmware, then sets it  
to take video input on the s-video port.

On Ubuntu, v4l2-ctl is found in the package ivtv-utils .

/hound