Thanx for the answers.

Yes, seem like the chip really is faulty. I now could experience the same 
behavior on Windows. On the Mac the camera worked fine because Quicktime only 
supports YUYV as far as I know.

In that case, apologies for bothering the list.

Cheers,
Ezra.

On 26.03.2011, at 00:30, Paul Jurczak wrote:

> I just bought Gear Head WC1300BLK camera with the same VC0342PLVBE controller 
> and VGA sensor. Camera works fine with GUVCViewer. Compared with your camera 
> it lacks FRAME_MJPEG formats, only FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED are present.
> 
> VC0342PLVBE supports MJPEG in high speed mode as pass-trough, only if image 
> sensor is able to provide it. VC0342PLVBE will perform MJPEG compression in 
> full speed mode at CIF and lower resolutions (you can test it by going 
> through USB1.1 hub). So what may have happened here is manufacturing change 
> of image sensor used on your camera. The new one no longer has MJPEG output. 
> These things happen with terrifying frequency when you source the product 
> from China. Each shipment brings something new and exciting.
> 
> Paul.

_______________________________________________
Linux-uvc-devel mailing list
Linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel

Reply via email to