Hi Antonio, On Friday 08 January 2010 20:47:21 Antonio C. Costantino wrote: > In data martedì 27 ottobre 2009 11:16:47, Laurent Pinchart ha scritto: > > On Monday 26 October 2009 13:05:58 Antonio C. Costantino wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm pretty new to the Linux "video sphere", so I thought writing to the > > > list to get some facts about a webcam I'd like to buy. > > > > > > Indeed, I'm going to buy a spc2050nc from Philips. I was induced to > > > Philips by the extensive list of supported devices at this link > > > (http://linux- uvc.berlios.de/). > > I finally got it. > > > > Although the spc2050nc is not listed as a supported device, the > > > data-sheet > > > (http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/s/spc2050nc_93/spc2050nc_93_pss_aen.p > > >df ) states clearly that the webcam is an UVC USB video class. So my > > > question is, being it a UVC device, will it work out of the box? or > > > will I need to provide you with some data for you to "enable" spc2050nc > > > support? > > > > It should work out of the box. At least in theory :-) > > It works indeed, although I'm still checking different programmes and > resolutions. > > > In practice webcams can be buggy. The same applies to the uvcvideo driver > > of course, but experience showed that there are nowadays more bugs in > > the webcams than in the driver. > > > > The uvcvideo driver has a list of "quirks" it can use for various devices > > that are not 100% UVC compatible. If you're not lucky your camera will > > need one of those, and you'll have to pass an extra parameter when > > loading the driver until I fix it. If you're really not lucky your camera > > will require a new quirk and will steal a few hours of my sleep. And if > > you're really really really not lucky it might not work at all, but that > > tends to be quite uncommon nowadays. > > When you have time, tell me what output I may provide you in order to add > the device to the list of supported webcams.
All I need it the output of lsusb -v for your webcam. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
