Oh, never mind. I just had ekiga misconfigured. I went to the edit
preferences and changed the video plugin to v4l2 and the format to pal and
I was good.
Thank you very much!
--Ryan
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ryan Jud Hughes wrote:
> Hi. I just ran a few updates and now my camera works. I think I was
> having usb problems. (from this, I discovered that it is an incredibly
> shitty camera, but that's beside the point). It works just fine in
> luvcview and in cheese.
>
> Now here's the ekiga output with -d 4. I see a camera with plugin v4l,
> but isn't mine only v4l2? Maybe I'm wrong.
>
> In a dialogue box, it says "Your video driver doesn't support the
> requested video format."
>
> Nothing suspicious is in my /var/log/syslog.
>
> Thanks.
> --Ryan
>
> Here's the ekiga -d 4 output.
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:34.932 0:00.651 ekiga Detected
> audio plugins: ALSA
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:34.932 0:00.651 ekiga Detected
> video plugins: Picture,V4L2,V4L
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:34.932 0:00.651 ekiga Detected
> audio plugins: ALSA
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:34.932 0:00.651 ekiga Detected
> video plugins: Picture,V4L2,V4L
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.258 0:00.978 ekiga Detected
> the following audio input devices: Default,HDA Intel with plugin ALSA
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.259 0:00.978 ekiga Detected
> the following audio output devices: Default,HDA Intel with plugin ALSA
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.259 0:00.978 ekiga Detected
> the following video input devices: Integrated Camera with plugin V4L
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.259 0:00.978 ekiga Detected
> the following audio input devices: Default,HDA Intel with plugin ALSA
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.259 0:00.978 ekiga Detected
> the following audio output devices: Default,HDA Intel with plugin ALSA
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.259 0:00.978 ekiga Detected
> the following video input devices: Integrated Camera with plugin V4L
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.576 0:01.295 ekiga Ekiga
> version 2.0.11
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.576 0:01.295 ekiga OPAL
> version 2.2.11
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.576 0:01.295 ekiga PWLIB
> version 1.10.10
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.576 0:01.295 ekiga GNOME
> support enabled
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.576 0:01.295 ekiga Fullscreen
> support enabled
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.576 0:01.295 ekiga DBUS
> support enabled
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.580 0:01.299 ekiga Set TCP
> port range to 30000:30010
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.580 0:01.299 ekiga Set RTP
> port range to 5000:5059
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:35.580 0:01.299 ekiga Set UDP
> port range to 5060:5100
>
> 2007/11/20 10:54:36.024 0:01.743 ekiga AVAHI
> Adding service Ryan Hughes
>
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> On Monday 05 November 2007, Ryan Jud Hughes wrote:
>>> Hi. I just got a ThinkPad R61. It has a usb webcam which does not seem to
>>> work. It's using the uvc module, so I thought this would be the place.
>>>
>>> The output from lsusb is the subject of this message. Here's the output of
>>> a few apps:
>>>
>>> ____ Application: xawtv (shows black screen) ____
>>> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.22-14-generic)
>>> WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
>>> /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
>>> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*"
>>> to type FontStruct
>>> ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0x7fff98783514
>>> [PAL_G,PAL_I,PAL_M,PAL_Nc,NTSC_M,NTSC_M_JP,SECAM_H,SECAM_K,SECAM_K1,SECAM_L
>>> ,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null
>>> ),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid argument
>>> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
>>> ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0
>>> [];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.s
>>> econds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0
>>> ;memory=unknown): Invalid argument
>>
>> Xawtv 3.95 is known not to work. You could try upgrading to the 4 beta
>> version.
>>
>>> ____ Application: gqcam ____
>>> Segmentation Fault
>>>
>>> ____ Application: luvcview ____
>>> luvcview version 0.2.1
>>> Video driver: x11
>>> A window manager is available
>>> video /dev/video0
>>> Unable to set format: 22.
>>> Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
>>>
>>
>> Pretty normal if your webcam support yuv only.
>>
>>> ____ Application: luvcview -f yuv ____
>>> Shows an image, which is attached.
>>
>> That's bad :-/ Do you get any suspicious message in the kernel log when
>> running luvcview -f yuv ? Try to set the trace level to 128 ('modprobe
>> uvcvideo trace=128' or 'echo 128 > /sys/modules/uvcvideo/parameters/trace')
>> and see if you get any "Dropping payload" message (warning: this will flood
>> your kernel log).
>>
>>> ____ Application: cheese ____
>>>
>>> ** Message: Probing the webcam, please ignore the following, not
>>> applicabable tries
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4l2src failed:
>>> Failed to construct test pipeline for 'v4l2src ! fakesink'
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc !
>>> video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline1/v4lsrc0:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink]: Could not
>>> get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc !
>>> video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline2/v4lsrc1:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink]: Could not
>>> get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc !
>>> video/x-raw-rgb,width=320,height=240 ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline3/v4lsrc2:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=320,height=240 ! fakesink]: Could not
>>> get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc !
>>> video/x-raw-rgb,width=1280,height=960 ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline4/v4lsrc3:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=1280,height=960 ! fakesink]: Could not
>>> get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc !
>>> video/x-raw-rgb,width=174,height=144 ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline5/v4lsrc4:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=174,height=144 ! fakesink]: Could not
>>> get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc !
>>> video/x-raw-rgb,width=160,height=120 ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline6/v4lsrc5:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=160,height=120 ! fakesink]: Could not
>>> get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! fakesink': Could not get/set
>>> settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm ():
>>> /pipeline7/v4lsrc6:
>>> Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument]
>>> ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed:
>>> [v4lsrc ! fakesink]: Could not get/set settings from/on resource.
>>> using source: videotestsrc
>>
>> I think there's a known issue with some gstreamer versions. Try searching the
>> mailing list archive for more information.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Laurent Pinchart
>>
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