On Saturday 16 June 2007 21:11, Brian wrote: > 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
Is this patch against Kopete SVN? Is there a howto on using it for n00bs? :) > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-uvc-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
