Hi Sab, > > Mplayer is known not to work with the UVC driver. A (simple) bug inside > > mplayer still hasn't been fixed. > > > > Try to use ekiga or luvcview to check if your webcam works. Then, but the > > mplayer developers to fix the bug. > > Well, I was just using mplayer to test as I thought it may > have a solid V4L2 implementation, apparently I was wrong...
Mplayer has a good V4L2 implementation, but not good enough for the linux-uvc driver. > Yeah, indeed, luvcview did succeed to initialize the camera. > Ekiga by itself did not, but after I ran luvcview, Ekiga > was able use it. But after some experimenting with Ekiga > (turning cam off and on) sometimes it failed, then I > reran luvcview and then it started to work again. Ekiga is not to blame. Logitech webcams have a hardware bug which prevent them from working properly when used with some USB controllers. There's a subtle timing issue at the USB stack level which is triggered by Linux only. We currently don't know how to work around it. > The tcl/tk-based MSN client "amsn" also failed to get the > camera to work, even after it has been initialized with > luvcview. amsn doesn't support V4L2 properly. > So practically I could not use the camera for anything > good although it theoretically works. Does this count? Now that your webcam works (well, mostly, if you don't take the hardware bug into account), your next task will be to get your applications of choice fixed :-) Cheers, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
