On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 10:33 -0300, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > I have been trying to get the webcam to work on: > > Linux mars 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sat Aug 8 13:33:30 ADT 2009 x86_64 > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > lsusb > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 > > I enabled V4L in the Kernel and enabled API 1.0. > Then I installed the driver as in : > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-768893.html?sid=57e3dbf52a9be44c18f4f779069802ab > > Now, when I try this: > ============================================================== > mplayer -fps 15 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/v4l/video0 > MPlayer 29040-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team > > Playing tv://. > TV file format detected. > No such driver: v4l2 > > > Exiting... (End of file) > ============================================================== > > So I tried without specifying a driver: > > $ mplayer -fps 25 tv:// -tv device=/dev/video > > MPlayer 29040-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team > > Playing tv://. > TV file format detected. > Selected driver: dummy > name: NULL-TV > author: alex > comment: > Selected input hasn't got a tuner! > ========================================================================== > Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video > VDec: vo config request - 320 x 200 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) > Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. > VO: [xv] 320x200 => 320x200 Planar YV12 > Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm: raw (RAW YV12) > ========================================================================== > Audio: no sound > FPS forced to be 25.000 (ftime: 0.040). > Starting playback... > V: 1.0 73/ 73 0% 6% 0.0% 0 0 > V: 1.0 82/ 82 0% 6% 0.0% 0 0 > > Exiting... (End of file) > > > I got a small window, with a green color and nothing else. I will > appreciate any advice, as I don't want to keep booting to windows, only > for this. :) > Thanks > > >
Just guessing, don't have ricoh, but: In menu config the following choices (just for the camera, other multimedia devices not considered by me) and recompile kernel: Device Drivers ---> Multimedia devices ---> *** Multimedia core support *** <M> Video For Linux [*] Enable Video For Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED) (NEW) *** Multimedia drivers *** [ ] Load and attach frontend and tuner driver modules as needed [*] Video capture adapters (NEW) ---> --- Video capture adapters [*] V4L USB devices (NEW) ---> --- V4L USB devices <M> USB OV511 Camera support (NEW)
