Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-05-23 Thread ticapix
On 16 avr, 09:41, Berco Beute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 15, 11:45 pm, Berco Beute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried reinstalling gstreamer (for windows): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/gstreamer/gstre.. but that didn't help. I get some complaints about

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-17 Thread Berco Beute
On Apr 16, 2:26 pm, yoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berco Beute wrote: I've been trying to access my webcam using Python, but I failed miserably. The camera works fine under Ubuntu (using camora and skype), but I am unable to get WebCamSpy or libfg to access my webcam. First I tried

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-16 Thread Berco Beute
On Apr 15, 11:45 pm, Berco Beute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried reinstalling gstreamer (for windows): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/gstreamer/gstre...http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/gstreamer/gstre... but that didn't help. I get some

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-16 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Berco Beute wrote: On Apr 15, 11:45 pm, Berco Beute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried reinstalling gstreamer (for windows): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/gstreamer/gstre...http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/gstreamer/gstre... but that didn't

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-16 Thread Berco Beute
On Apr 16, 12:19 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if you are now using windows, there are better options - but I'm a *nix-boy :) Diez So am I :), but the application I'm writing has to run on *that other operating system from the 90's*. I'm trying hard not to implement the

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-16 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Berco Beute wrote: On Apr 16, 12:19 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if you are now using windows, there are better options - but I'm a *nix-boy :) Diez So am I :), but the application I'm writing has to run on *that other operating system from the 90's*. I'm trying

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-16 Thread yoz
Berco Beute wrote: I've been trying to access my webcam using Python, but I failed miserably. The camera works fine under Ubuntu (using camora and skype), but I am unable to get WebCamSpy or libfg to access my webcam. First I tried webcamspy (http://webcamspy.sourceforge.net/). That

webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Berco Beute
I've been trying to access my webcam using Python, but I failed miserably. The camera works fine under Ubuntu (using camora and skype), but I am unable to get WebCamSpy or libfg to access my webcam. First I tried webcamspy (http://webcamspy.sourceforge.net/). That requires pySerial and

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Berco Beute wrote: I've been trying to access my webcam using Python, but I failed miserably. The camera works fine under Ubuntu (using camora and skype), but I am unable to get WebCamSpy or libfg to access my webcam. First I tried webcamspy (http://webcamspy.sourceforge.net/). That

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Berco Beute
Thanks, that would be great. While I'm at it I wondering how to display a video preview. Here's someone using VideoCapture (the win32 lib) and PyGame, but I'd rather use a GUI framework and preview/capture videos directly. 2B It has been *ages* since I did this - so take it with a grain of

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Berco Beute wrote: Thanks, that would be great. While I'm at it I wondering how to display a video preview. Here's someone using VideoCapture (the win32 lib) and PyGame, but I'd rather use a GUI framework and preview/capture videos directly. gstreamer has a preview window. Diez --

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Laurent Pointal
Le Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:21:54 -0700, Berco Beute a écrit : I've been trying to access my webcam using Python, but I failed miserably. The camera works fine under Ubuntu (using camora and skype), but I am unable to get WebCamSpy or libfg to access my webcam. First I tried webcamspy

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Berco Beute schrieb: Thanks, that would be great. Here you go. http://roggisch.de/vidio.tgz Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Berco Beute
On Apr 15, 11:18 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berco Beute schrieb: Thanks, that would be great. Here you go. http://roggisch.de/vidio.tgz Diez Wonderful! Thank you very much! I'm running out of time, but after installing the necessary goodies using the nice package from