On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Houman R. wrote: > 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.
There's not much I can do if applications do not request 640x480 when the driver/webcam can provide it. You should ask for help on application-specific mailing lists or forums. Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
