Hi Houman,

Another possible option is to use kopete.
To get it to work you need to compile it with a patch.
http://www.alexandredenis.net/software/kopete-uvc/kopete-uvc-patch-20060206

FYI
Brian

Houman R. wrote:
> 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;
> 
> regards
> 
> Houman
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