Yes cheese uses gstreamer for its v4l interface, so yeah the issue is propably not directly related to cheese but either gstreamer or libv4l. It also appears it may be 64bit related somehow since i have had reports of our driver working just fine using cheese on jaunty but i think the person was using 32bit rather then 64bit
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jochen Kemnade <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > vubuntu schrieb: >> Or it could be that of Cheese which can't catch up with new video >> stream in Jaunty. > > I don't think this is a cheese problem (Uh, that sounds strange...). I > think, it is more likely to be related to gstreamer. AFAICT, cheese uses > gstreamer to acquire the image, which would also explain, why the webcam > works for example in skype, ekiga and mplayer which do not seem to use a > gstreamer-based backend. > Also, the video input preview in gstreamer-properties fails to show the > image from the webcam but only displays an error message saying "Video > for Linux 2 (v4l2): Could not negotiate format" > > Regards, > Jochen > -- > Jochen Kemnade > [email protected] > PGP: 0xb5cb0a3f > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
