hi Andrew, ..on or around Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:29:31AM +0700, Andrew Fenn said: > Hi, I don't know if I am posting this correctly because I am not used to > using mailing lists. > > Anyway, I read in last month's archives about a bug discussed on the > Quickcam pro 9000 and about how it freezes in skype (I haven't tested other > programs, any suggestions?). I have the webcam and I wanted to confirm that > it does freeze the camera for some reason unless you hold the camera up to a > light for a few seconds after you start the camera. For some reason it works > fine after that. Sometimes you don't have to do this, if for example your > room is quite bright anyway. > > If the camera does freeze I have to unplug the camera and plug it back in to > get it working again. After the camera is frozen the camera's light will > stay on even if I stop using the webcam. >
as a temporary workaround you could try turning off automatic exposure using either luvcview or Logitech's own uvcdynctrl (from their libwebcam distribution). i use the latter: ./uvcdynctrl --set "Exposure, Auto" 1 while you don't get the fancy great-picture-in-low-light feature, you do get much better performance and stability. cheers, julian oliver -- http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net emails containing HTML will not be read. _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
