I also am attempting to get a HUE HD camera working with the same poor results in Ubuntu 8.10 and using these instructions.
http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web/testing-microdia-driver-draft Here's what it looks like in Mplayer. http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/5947/screenshot1ou3.jpg $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=25:device=/dev/video0 -vo x11 MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (Family: 15, Model: 107, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing tv://. TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <[email protected]> comment: first try, more to come ;-) Selected device: SN9C20X USB 2.0 Webcam Driver Capabilites: video capture read/write streaming supported norms: inputs: 0 = Webcam;v4l2: ioctl get input failed: Invalid argument Current input: 1 Current format: unknown (0x31384142) tv.c: norm_from_string(pal): Bogus norm parameter, setting default. v4l2: ioctl enum norm failed: Invalid argument Error: Cannot set norm! Selected input hasn't got a tuner! v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. GNOME screensaver disabled ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [x11] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 [swscaler @ 0xf86610]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm: raw (RAW YV12) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Starting playback... libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 2 more bits libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 1 more bits libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffd9 V: 0.0 457/457 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Lets make microdia webcams plug'n play, (currently plug'n pray) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Visit us online https://groups.google.com/group/microdia -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
