1. Pinnacle Studio DC10 Plus
2. bigphysarea patch
3. Xawtv Х Motv
4. Linux Video Studio

1) Pinnacle Studio DC10 Plus

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)

#if 0

EXTRAVERSION = -9aspcustom

EXTRAVERSION = -9asptest 

or any other value. The point of this action is the removal of the substring "custom". Otherwise the driver shall not load.

After that run

make oldconfig dep clean bzImage modules modules_install install

Load  "v4l"             # Video4Linux

After kernel installation go to the driver-zoran-0.9.4 directory and run "make" and "./update dc10plus PAL" subsequently. The standard videocard drivers shall be loaded. Having the driver loaded you will have to restart the X-server (or achieve automatic driver load before the X-server starts) with help of Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace.

2) bigphysarea patch

If you need to use xawtv or motv for video capture and grab screenshots in the overlay mode (no blue screens , it's necessary to install the bigphysarea patch. During the compilation of the patched kernel (having THOROUGHLY read the README supplied with the kernel patch) there must be a warning message, telling you that in a certain file (shall be specified) you should replace malloc.h with slab.h in the #define section. By running

mem=xxxM bigphysarea=4096

[linux1067443216@Linux(2.4.20-20.9observ)]
icon linux
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9observ mem=235M bigphysarea=4096
root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9observ.img

where xxxM is the difference between full RAM-size and the size of the memory you wish to allocate (reserve) for video capture operations. bigphysarea=4096 means that the kernel will reserve 16Mb of RAM for video capture buffering. Having the system started correctly you may check the memory availability:

[user@host user]$ cat /proc/bigphysarea
Big physical area, size 4096 kB
                       free list:             used list:
number of blocks:             1                      0
size of largest block:     4096 kB                   0 kB
total:                     4096 kB                   0 kB
[user@host user]$

options zoran card=2 v4l_bufsize=4096
alias char-major-81-0 zoran
alias char-major-81 zr36067

tail -f /var/log/messages:

Oct 19 16:54:52 host kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small

>> However, you need to "make clean && make" in the
>> driver sources to recompile it with bigphysarea support, too. 

3) XawTv and Motv.

To install Xawtv and Motv you will first have to remove the native ASPLinux xawtv as it does not contain motv. Then you should download the latest version of XawTv from the developer's site (motv included in the source) and install it. Installing the native xawtv may require the sys/asoundlib.h library, which can be found in the alsa-lib-devel package supplied with ASPLinux9 (RedHat9) (the second package is required for compatibility):

[root@host video1]# rpm -Uhv alsa-lib-devel-0.9.6-1asp.i386.rpm 
alsa-driver-headers-0.9.6-1.9asp.i386.rpm
оНДЦНРНБЙЮ...               ########################################### [100%]
   1:alsa-driver-headers    ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:alsa-lib-devel         ########################################### [100%]
[root@host video1]#

XawTV	Motv

4) To install the Linux Video Studio(http://ronald.bitfreak.net/) you will have to install jpeg-mmx-0.1.4.tar.gz first.

After ./configure and make you should say make install, and then (that's important as the jpeg-mmx setup doesn't copy the jpegint.h to /usr/local/include/ that is required by libmovtar that is required for mjpegtools, necessary for the Linux Video Studio to operate):

cp jpegint.h /usr/local/include/

Then you will need to install libmovtar-0.1.3.tar.gz and mjpegtools-1.6.1.90.tar.gz consecutively.

Having the above listed actions performed you can install linuxvideostudio-0.1.7 linuxvideostudio-0.1.7 and let the Linux video capture and video editing fun begin.

The described above will probably work for other versions of Linux too.

To start broadcasting over the network (whether local or internet) you may use, e.g. the palantir software. The Linux and Windows server installations included.

Serguei Miridonov, the developer of the zoran chip driver writes that you can use two programs for overlay and to capture video to a file.

>> Is it possible to assign two video capture programs to
>> a single capturing device simultaneously?
>> Suppose one of them writing to a file, while the other
>> performing overlay to control what is being written to the disk,
>> that is to start xawtv and lavrec at the same time as an example?
>> Maybe you have already seen such things?
>
> 
> My driver at
> http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/DC10plus/ allows such
> operations, though I cannot guarantee that nothing will ever fail
> It was a sort of dirty hack there. It worked for me...
> You need to start xawtv to Нbserve first, and then the
> lavrec. The very same way you could watch (playback) video from a disk
>
> There is a new driver at
> http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/driver-zoran/ now. I didn't participate
> in it, so there's nothing I can say about it definitely. Actually, I
> haven't tried it yet. Although, unless my memory fails me, such an
> ability must have been included, thus it must have been developed
> more carefully. So I advise you to try.
>
> Moreover, my driver may not be working with new kernels.
> 
> Sergey.

The Linux Video Studio looks like this:

Thanks for Alexey Krasheninnikov for english version of this howto.