Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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 > > Thank you Laurent for the help, I will ask the amsn guys;
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