Some questions about this program
What is this software for?
Zapping is a TV viewer, so displaying TV is its main
goal. Nevertheless, there are a number of things that can be done to a
image stream, and Zapping provides a way to do them, you just need a
plug-in that fits your particular needs. If such a plug-in doesn't
exist, you are encouraged to write one.
I miss feature XYZ, will it be implemented?
Probably. The sooner you ask for it, the more probabilities it will
have of being included in the next release.
It doesn't work!?
It does for me ;-)
When reporting
the bug check that it isn't a known one
(check the file BUGS that comes with Zapping), and include as
much info as possible (if there is a crash include the backtrace too).
- When fullscreen the image doesn't use the whole screen.
That usually means that you are using a high resolution. Tell the X
server that you want to use a smaller resolution apart from the usual
one (in /etc/X11/XF86Config or maybe using Xconfigurator or a similar program).
- Fullscreen and preview modes show a very distorted image
The usual cause for this is that Zapping couldn't guess correctly the
BPP the X Server is using internally. This is quite common in 24/32
bpp modes, since there's no way I'm aware of to get the real bpp. Try
using the command line --bpp switch.
- I have a NTSC camera connected to S-Video, but PAL is used.
This is a flaw in the V4L spec. You can workaround it by passing the
standard you want to use for tunerless inputs as a command line option
to Zapping. For example:
zapping -n SECAM
Note: This is just a workaround, and it will only work if you
have at least one input with a tuner.
How can I help?
The preferred way is with translations, patches and plugins.
Drop me a line if you want to help.
Can you give a concise description of this program?
Zapping is a TV viewer for Gnome. It is also a convenient framework
for getting and processing the image stream from the TV source (e.g. a
Webcam connected to your V4L device, or the teletext from vtx
devices).
If you want to contact me (please report bugs
instead of sending them directly to me), you just have to follow this link.
In the
Sourceforge project
page there are some forums, use them freely.