Hi Laurent and thank you for the reply;

Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 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).
>   
I was able to get that resolution with "luvcview -s 640x480" (although 
the frame rate is kind of low, around 17 fps on average). But how would 
I achieve this in amsn or ekiga? it seems the default resolution is 320x240.
> Laurent Pinchart
>
>   
thank you ;

Houman
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