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.
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