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Titel: webcams and Linux (kanotix!)
 Verfasst am: 20.11.2006, 15:15 Uhr
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G'day
As much as I love many things about Linux, this steep transition to getting new hardware to work on it is really pain in the back side!!!
Anyway, I got myself a third Webcam that was guranteed to work on linux (the first two didn't work at all!) however, I still can't get it to work.
Kanotix does see the usb webcam:
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root@nito# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0ac8:303b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c512 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
but I can't get it to work on Camorama, or any other webcam software...
I tried looking into "dmesg" to see if any usb actions happening and found this:
Zitat:
root@nito# dmesg | grep usb
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usb 1-2: ZC0301[P] Image Processor and Control Chip detected (vid/pid 0x0AC8/0x303B)
usb 1-2: PB-0330 image sensor detected
usb 1-2: Initialization succeeded
usb 1-2: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
usbcore: registered new driver zc0301
usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
/usr/src/modules/spca5xx/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 1-2: Disconnecting ZC0301[P] PC Camera...
usb 1-2: V4L2 device /dev/video0 deregistered
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: ZC0301[P] Image Processor and Control Chip detected (vid/pid 0x0AC8/0x303B)
usb 1-2: PB-0330 image sensor detected
usb 1-2: Initialization succeeded
usb 1-2: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6
usb 1-2: Disconnecting ZC0301[P] PC Camera...
usb 1-2: V4L2 device /dev/video0 deregistered
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: ZC0301[P] Image Processor and Control Chip detected (vid/pid 0x0AC8/0x303B)
usb 1-2: PB-0330 image sensor detected
usb 1-2: Initialization succeeded
usb 1-2: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
any suggestions appreciated...
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Titel: RE: webcams and Linux (kanotix!)
Verfasst am: 20.11.2006, 16:08 Uhr
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...also
Zitat:
root@nito# caminfo
CVideoDevice::CVideoDevice() could not query capabilities; is this really a video device?
CVideoDevice::ResetImagesRGB()
CVideoDevice::ResetImagesYUV()
Detected 0 Video4Linux devices.
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Verfasst am: 20.11.2006, 20:44 Uhr
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Well I tried some USB web cams and frankly I was not impressed. USB cameras have horrible framerates. Videoconferencing happens to be what I do for a living so........ I'm kind of picky. 
Dunno if this is an option for you or not but my own solution to this problem was to buy a cheap wingotv tuner card < $20 and plug an analog video camera into the VIDEO IN port on the tv tuner card. Voila! 40-50 FPS. (Sure USB cams claim they can do 30FPS but I was lucky to see 10).
I like this way becasue:
1) There are no stupid drivers to mess with (tv tuner uses bttv chipset which is supported by Linux kernel),
2) No terrible video due to low frame rates.
3) It just works.
CONS:
Well the video cam is not exactly small and certainly does not fit on my desk, in fact it's kind of big but I use a tripod. |
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Verfasst am: 20.11.2006, 22:52 Uhr
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| Just added note.. better low light and res too!! sometime you can find a real tresure at pawn shop's too. but thay are big! |
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Verfasst am: 22.11.2006, 10:42 Uhr
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mzilikazi hat folgendes geschrieben::
Dunno if this is an option for you or not but my own solution to this problem was to buy a cheap wingotv tuner card < $20
sounds like a fair suggestion but what is this "wingotv" tuner cards?
is it something like the ordinary tv cards? |
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Verfasst am: 22.11.2006, 16:00 Uhr
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nitto hat folgendes geschrieben::
sounds like a fair suggestion but what is this "wingotv" tuner cards?
is it something like the ordinary tv cards?
There are alot of tv tuners that work with Linux but I can only recommend this one as it's the only one I've used. AAMOF this is the exact tuner card and site I bought it from. Great company to buy from as well. I've done a fair amount of business with them and never a problem. |
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