Hi Nikolaus, On Friday 04 July 2008, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Nikolaus, > > > > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am using a Philips SPC620NC webcam with the v4l2 driver. If a access > >> the webcam using e.g. mplayer, everything works fine (example > >> screenshot: > >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15698358/Screenshot-MPlayer-1.png ). > >> > >> However, if I try to access the webcam using ekiga (www.ekiga.org), > >> the video is garbled. It is only green and has horizontal lines all > >> over it: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15698333/Screenshot-Ekiga.png > >> > >> I suppose this is more likely to be an ekiga bug, but since I'm not > >> entirely sure, I wanted to ask here as well. Has anyone else > >> encountered this problem, maybe with a different application? Or is > >> there something I could do with the driver to avoid the problem? > > > > I'd vote for an Ekiga bug, but I never rule out the possibility of driver > > bugs either :-) > > I just tried to access the webcam with luvcview: > > nokile:~/projekte/s3fs$ 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 > > nokile:~/projekte/s3fs$ luvcview -f yuv > luvcview version 0.2.1 > Video driver: x11 > A window manager is available > video /dev/video0 > Clean Up done Quit > > > The second call works. Could that be the reason for my problems? And > is it the fault of the driver or the cam itself that it doesn't > generate jpg?
The camera itself doesn't support MJPEG. That's not really an issue, as Ekiga is supposed to support YUV. As your camera works with luvcview, I don't think the driver (or the camera) can be blamed here. It looks like Ekiga doesn't transcode from YUV to RGB. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
