Re: camorama vs xawtv
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Steve Reilly <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just got a Logitech Webcam C200, and to start playing with it I
>> thought I could use camorama. However when I start the app I get a :
>>
>> "Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection"
>>
>> If I start xawtv everything is setup and working nicely (no
>> configuration). How do I setup camorama ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> when you plug in the webcam check if its attached to /dev/video0, it may
> be attached to 1? I believe you can start it with the D switch and
> specify what device to use. maybe thisll help?
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=831510
> ubuntu, but shouldnt make a difference.
I found some issue with uvcvideo:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/287888
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/290506
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497924
But cheese is working on my machine so webcam with uvcvideo are ok.
[968669.978416] usb 6-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
[968670.245288] usb 6-3: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0802
[968670.245292] usb 6-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
SerialNumber=2
[968670.245295] usb 6-3: SerialNumber: A6C18F50
[968670.245398] usb 6-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[968670.619301] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[968670.742388] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0802)
[968670.782713] input: UVC Camera (046d:0802) as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb6/6-3/6-3:1.0/input/input56
[968670.782774] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[968670.782780] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
I guess there is something very specific to camorama going on.
Thanks anyway
--
Mathieu
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