Re: new camera

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 6/26/20 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for machine.
> 
> Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus.
> 
> But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff.
> It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it.
> 
> From dmesg:
> [598961.717093] usb 1-12.4.4.4: new high-speed USB device number 18 using xhci_hcd
> [598961.869828] usb 1-12.4.4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=1bcf, idProduct=284c
> [598961.869837] usb 1-12.4.4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> [598961.869844] usb 1-12.4.4.4: Product: SPCA2650 AV Camera
> [598961.869848] usb 1-12.4.4.4: Manufacturer: SunplusIT Inc
> [598961.869852] usb 1-12.4.4.4: SerialNumber: 01.00.00
> [598961.954556] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
> [598961.973982] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> [598961.999017] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device SPCA2650 AV Camera (1bcf:284c)
> [598962.015747] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 4 was not initialized!
> [598962.015756] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 3 was not initialized!
> [598962.015760] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 2 was not initialized!
> [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized!
> [598962.015987] input: SPCA2650 AV Camera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-12/1-12.4/1-12.4.4/1-12.4.4.4/1-12.4.4.4:1.0/input/input20
> [598962.016163] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
> 
> Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera needs?
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 

Hi Gene,

try to use your camera with mpv player. Just use something like this:

$ mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0

My camera works just fine with Skype, Zoom and Hangouts but it doesn't
work with VLC.

Kind regards
Georgi