So I recently got a Blackmagic Intensity...

ruta · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Canada

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this. I got this card because it's a good price for an HD card that actually has Linux drivers, but I feel like there must be only 100 Linux users out there that have used this. The documentation for installing the driver was pretty bogus, and getting the software that comes with it (Media Express) to work was even more silly. I did get it to work though, all in all, but it's not really what I was looking for.

My problem is I find the software, Media Express, is terrible. It seems to be very unstable on my system, doesn't play sound (only records it, but I can get around this), and worst of all, there does not seem to be a way I can see to make the image itself go full screen. The entire suite is fairly limited on giving useful error messages too.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone else is using this card? Is there any software that can use it other than Media Express? I don't believe Myth can, but I haven't played around with it yet. I don't really want to install the whole package with a card that is unsupported. However, I really need to find something better than that Media Express. Do I have any hope? I've tried googling but I haven't really gotten much. Is the SDK my only chance at better software? I'm not much of a programmer. This seemed like a much better idea when I was buying it!

elsphinc · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject:

not sure but did you look into freevo
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
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ruta · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Canada

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ruta · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Canada

You really got my hopes up there, swordfischer, but VLC can only use Blackmagic in Windows thanks to DirectShow. I don't want to get into a rant here about how disappointed I am with everything to do with this card in Linux, but it really boggles my mind that they went out of their way making their Windows and Mac versions with DirectShow and Quicktime, then just looked the other way with Linux. Maybe they're hoping the Linux community pulls through, but I just don't have the know-how, and I don't see much support. There's a couple people who have spoken about it in the past year, so I'm still hoping.

At the very least, it'd be nice if MediaExpress didn't randomly crash with glibc errors or segmentation faults frequently. I would also appreciate it if they tested their drivers with newer kernels before making claims like "works on all kernels above x," but then I guess that would require they change their documentation.