Am Sonntag 03 Mai 2009 21:33:01 schrieb vubuntu: > Thanks, Jochen - Brian. > > Yeah, something problematic with gstreamer and/or libv4l in the 64bit > version sounds more possible. > > In my case, only MPlayer can show webcam images. Neither cheese nor > skype can do the same despite detecting the name of the webcam. Other > webcam applications say NO, either. > > I also notice a strange thing which I suppose a problem, i.e: after my > laptop restarts, Kernel 2.6.28-11 does not remember the microdia > installation and configurations whilst Kernel 2.6.27-7 does. > > Anyway, now I have to boot into Kernel 2.6.27-7 to use my webcam > with... a little reluctance :-) > > But you guys here have done a great job. IOU 4 that. > > Cheers, > > On May 3, 7:47 pm, Brian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
You have to compile and install sn9c20x.ko for every new kernel if you don't use DKMS. GWater
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