Hello all, I own a webcam (Logitech Quickcam USB 5000 pro) not supported by aMSN, kopete and a lot of other programs. So all of your good work with the linux-uvc-driver does not help, if no application handles what can be done.
My personal goal is getting kopete to work with my webcam. That sounds easy, but in fact is not: There's no way to scale the image for my internet-bandwidth and there's no way to switch between MJPEG und YUYV(?)-Mode in kopete. I first have to start ekiga, try and set the right resolution, then start kopete and see a much too large picture. The other way works too: I can set a smaller resolution, then start kopete and see a picture with scrambled lines (looks like every line is continued in the next line): kopete does not handle MJPEG. Well, I don't want to bother you with these non-working applications, but an idea came to my mind: we're using linux, and linux is the OS without limitations! :-) Why not use another program, receive the picture from the webcam, recode it the way we want it, deliver it to a pseudo-/dev/video and be lucky with the new and working video-device? My problem right now is: Is there any program that can simulate a /dev/video-device? I know of streaming-software streaming to the internet, but this does not help for use with kopete, does it? The setup intended looks like following: 1) webcam -> /dev/video0 2) /dev/video0 -> unknown/program -x 480 -y 360 -codec_out YUY2 -> /dev/video1 (important: Frames not read by the target-application should be dropped, not saved!) 3) /dev/video1 -> kopete Any idea someone? Any better idea for getting my webcam working with kopete? Thanks in advance! Martin _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
