Hi, thanks for answering. I don't have time for compiling mplayer now, and I don't really need it because all I want is to speak over Skype with my family and my friends and this is working for me.
--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] Philips SPC620NC, Video garbled > To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 12:46 AM > Hi, > > On Friday 04 July 2008, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Hello as I stated I have experience with 1 SPC620 and > one SPC1000 webcams. > > The 620 does support only YUV the 1000 supports MJPEG > additionally. > > > > Skype test works fine with both of them. luvcview is > defaulted to use > > MJPEG, so you have to run it with -f YUV to get the > job done. > > > > I was not able to get any other app working with > either SPC620/1000 webcam. > > I tried mplayer. vlc and xawtv. I read there is a > patch for this issue for > > mplayer (because this is my favourite), but didn't > test it. > > The latest mplayer version should include the patch, but > you might have to > check it out from their SVN repository. I don't know if > they released an > official version with the patch included. I know this but no time to do it > > > So may be it's not only the format (i.e. YUV) but > also another issue how > > device and data is handled by the app itself. > > To work the UVC webcams, application have to support V4L2 > and at least one of > the formats supported by the camera (YUV and/or MJPEG). > Some application > still support V4L1 only (vlc felt in that category last > time I checked) or > have bugs in their V4L2 implementation (xawtv and mplayer, > before the patch > got included). > I know this but I don't have a real problem with the webcam or Skype > I can't really help there as I don't use Skype, > sorry. > Could somebody have a look at my mail to the list with the Title [Question uvc Philps SPC620NC nvidia,ati and Skype] that I posted on 7/3/2008 I really would appreciate your help. thanks _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
