Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:38:03 +0100 From: "Dominique Goncalves" <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATTENTION WEBCAM USERS: Say cheese! Message-ID: <7daacbbe0801231238o1d180375xd4e85f34640a9682@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <478E88AB.60906@FreeBSD.org> References: <478BB33F.3000506@FreeBSD.org> <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com> <478E88AB.60906@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, On Jan 16, 2008 11:43 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dominique Goncalves wrote: > | Hi, > | > | On Jan 14, 2008 8:08 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > > | One of the new GNOME 2.22 modules is cheese. Cheese is a small GNOME > | app that drives webcams to take pictures and videos using gstreamer's > | video4linux plug-in. If you're familiar with MacOS's Photobooth, it's a > | lot like that. > | > | However, it won't work on FreeBSD as it stands now. The reason is we > | lack webcam support in our hal port. I do not have a webcam, so I have > | no idea how these devices look. If anyone out there has a webcam that > | works with FreeBSD, how do you use it? How is it identified as a webcam > | by the OS? What device node does it use? What applications currently > | work with it? > | > |> I use a Logitech Quickcam express, FreeBSD detects the webcam as > |> ugen1: <vendor 0x046d Camera, class 255/255, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2> > on uhub1 > |> I just tried graphics/qcamview [1], it works with this: > | > |> % sudo qcamshot /dev/ugen1 > output.ppm > |> USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 > |> 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04 > |> quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08 > |> quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64 > |> quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19 > |> quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10 > |> quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected > |> Closing Qcam Express.....Done. > | > |> but with qcamview it crash: > |> USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 > |> 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04 > |> quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08 > |> quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64 > |> quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19 > |> quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10 > |> quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected > |> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > |> serial 111 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0 > | > |> Let me know if you need more information. > > Can you use this camera with vlc of ekiga (i.e. any video4linux-enabled > app)? Cheese will only support v4l devices. Unfortunaly no device detected :-( > Joe > > - -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD4DBQFHjoiqb2iPiv4Uz4cRAnovAKCXBVGNdQs889ezYSYyMo61xgkEcwCXU/k7 > l0bMMsTmk2GDV9l2BqjCaw== > =RQk0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > Regards. -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."
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