On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for the halibut, I bought a video camera. Skype picks it up and > runs it just fine. However, that seems to be the only application that > does. Camorama can't seem to run it. Am I missing a driver and if so > which one?
Camorama is a little bit vintage. If your camera works in Skype then probably the driver only supports only one of v4l2 or v4l and camorama only supports the other. This is a common problem with webcams (even though v4l2 is supposed to have a backward compatibility layer). It's also possible that the webcam uses a colorspace or media type that camorama doesn't understand. Give Cheese <http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/> a try. It uses gstreamer which in turn has backends for both v4l and v4l2. Use gstreamer-properties to tweak which one it uses (I think). Also it's awesome. Though I guess it doesn't support old-school ftp webcam posting like camorama probably does. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
