Re^2: UVC cameras

[peasthope@shaw.ca]

*	From: Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
*	Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:24:00 +0200
> Better, try luvcview or guvcview, specialised programmes to just grab
> the output of the camera. They also allow to alter the settings, maybe
> you can fix things.

Thanks for the tip. 

The camera is now a Microsoft (R) LifeCam NX-6000 as /dev/video0.
>From the description in aptitude, luvcview is the most capable of 
the two programs.  The following is from two cases.  The first gives 
a nice video.  The second, where I tried to specify smaller and 
legitimate video dimensions, gives a segmentation fault.

I'm imagining that Skype might work with a smaller resolution. 
Any suggestions to achieve that without a fault.

Thanks,              ... Peter E.

peter@dalton:~$ luvcview
luvcview 0.2.6

SDL information:
  Video driver: x11
  A window manager is available
Device information:
  Device path:  /dev/video0
Stream settings:
  Frame format: MJPG
  Frame size:   640x480
  Frame rate:   30 fps
^C
Quit signal received.
Cleanup done. Exiting ...
peter@dalton:~$ luvcview -s 320x240
luvcview 0.2.6

SDL information:
  Video driver: x11
  A window manager is available
Device information:
  Device path:  /dev/video0
Stream settings:
  Frame format: MJPG
  Frame size:   320x240
  Frame rate:   30 fps
Segmentation fault
peter@dalton:~$ 



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