Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
On 01/28/2010 01:14 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. Any inspirational advice thankfully accepted Adam you cloud try cheese, i tried that ones on my laptop and it worked right away for both pictures and video recording -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. Any inspirational advice thankfully accepted Adam Hi, did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. It would be quite amusing to set the Warp effect while skyping with people. Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. I would of course (being anal) like to sort out the issue with gimp though. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
Adam Hardy wrote: godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. It would be quite amusing to set the Warp effect while skyping with people. Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. I would of course (being anal) like to sort out the issue with gimp though. Adam there's nothing wrong with anal, but besides that, which kernel are you running and which driver? spca5 or gspca?? believe there could be some issue with the driver with the 2.26 kernel, either a driver or kernel ugrade could do the trick i suppose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
randall on 28/01/10 14:16, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. It would be quite amusing to set the Warp effect while skyping with people. Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. I would of course (being anal) like to sort out the issue with gimp though. Adam there's nothing wrong with anal, but besides that, which kernel are you running and which driver? spca5 or gspca?? believe there could be some issue with the driver with the 2.26 kernel, either a driver or kernel ugrade could do the trick i suppose I'm on Linux isengard 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 26 09:01:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux What are the drivers? lsmod doesn't list either. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
Adam Hardy wrote: godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. It would be quite amusing to set the Warp effect while skyping with people. Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. I would of course (being anal) like to sort out the issue with gimp though. Adam Hi, I have a very well supported uvc webcam working with every program I throw at it, but never got it to work with Gimp/Xsane since Gimp2.2, it could be related to the v4l v4l2 shift (wild guess). Does the webcam work with Xsane ? You can use Guvcview to control the webcam output when Skypping (works with most uvc webcams, and a lot of spca/gspca ones), launch guvcview from a console with guvcview --control_only while using Skype. The version in Debian is a bit old, you can grab a newer one from the website: http://guvcview.berlios.de/ Not many effects available, but it's better than nothing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
Adam Hardy wrote: randall on 28/01/10 14:16, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. It would be quite amusing to set the Warp effect while skyping with people. Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. I would of course (being anal) like to sort out the issue with gimp though. Adam there's nothing wrong with anal, but besides that, which kernel are you running and which driver? spca5 or gspca?? believe there could be some issue with the driver with the 2.26 kernel, either a driver or kernel ugrade could do the trick i suppose I'm on Linux isengard 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 26 09:01:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux What are the drivers? lsmod doesn't list either. Adam Well, I'm not an expert so I might to be wrong. If I'm understood good your web cam work with Skype. If that is true that means that you have drivers. So just install Cheese: apt-get install cheese or do it with Synaptic. If you don't wont Cheese and wont to use web cam with GIMP and w3cam I can't help you because I don't know the procedure. I use my web cam with Skype and Cheese and it works fine. If that doesn't work type in shell lsusb You will get USB port output. Look for your camera manufacturer and in this site http://www.coursevector.com/linuxcamera/ for best driver. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
On 2010-01-28, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. Cheese will use whatever video input is selected when you run 'gstreamer-properties'. -- Liam O'Toole Birmingham, United Kingdom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
Adam Hardy wrote: I'm on Linux isengard 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 26 09:01:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux What are the drivers? lsmod doesn't list either. Adam Given your first message: In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) the driver should be uvcvideo (your webcam is a Logitech Quickcam E 3500 ?). Also your kernel is a bit old, and 2.6.26 was the first kernel to include uvcvideo, if you encounter any problem that you think could be linked to uvcvideo driver maybe you should try a newer one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
