Re: new camera

[Weaver <weaver@riseup.net>]

On 27-06-2020 06:20, 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?

Recently, I was unable to access a camera through Shotwell, but was able
to with gwenview through /run.
Looking at the readout, I don't think this is workable, but it may be
worth a try.

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