Hi Houman, On Friday 08 June 2007, Houman R. wrote: > Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> I have recently acquired a refurbished logitech 5000 webcam and I tried > >> using it with the uvc drivers. The problem is that ekiga and amsn can > >> use it perfectly after i install the uvc drivers. However, when i try to > >> load it using gstreamer-properties the video shown is garbled. The odd > >> thing is that on top of the video there is a small strip of pixels which > >> are perfectly fine (if i move my hand in front of the webcam I can see > >> it in that small strip) but the majority of the picture is just noise. > > > > Have you tried both MJPEG and YUV ? I haven't used gstreamer myself but I > > seem to recall some people made it work. > > > >> I need to be able to use gstreamer with this webcam because the > >> application that I need to use doesn't support v4l2 but it supports the > >> gstreamer framework (so I assume it can read v4l2 video through > >> gstreamer). Any help will be much appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > Laurent Pinchart > > hi Laurent and thanks for the reply; > > gstreamer-properties doesnt give me an optionof choosing YUV or MJPEG. > Also I doubt its a format issue because a part of the image is fine and > the rest garbled.
Ekiga and aMSN might be using one of the formats while gstreamer defaults to the other, so the format can be an issue. > Also if you know anyone who has managed to get it working could you please > send me a link to a post ? I don't think there's a post anywhere. I'll have to ask. > Also a side question, this camera is suppose to support VGA format, but > so far in amsn I have not been able to get more than 320x240 with > luvcview resolution from it. Is this as much as we can get out of this > camera? The camera definitely supports 640x480 in both MJPEG and YUV (make sure the webcam is plugged in a USB 2.0 port for YUV). Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
