Can anyone give me a bit of advice ... I'm trying to set up a webcam. When I connect to the camera using cheese, lucview or xcam, the picture is black for the first few frames, and gradually adjusts until the picture is visible.
v4lctl snap gives me a black picture. I suspect that during the first few frames after opening the device the camera is doing some auto-exposure adjustment. Is there any way anyone knows of getting a picture (programmatically) and allowing the camera to adjust its aperture/shutter speed or whatever it does? I've tried webcam and webcamd but they just deliver black pictures. The obvious attempt to take two pictures in a row gives two black pictures. $ v4lctl snap jpeg 320x240; v4lctl snap jpeg 320x240 Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
