From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue May 6 08:41:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA17232 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 08:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from teligent.se (iservern.teligent.se [194.17.198.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA17223 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 08:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from datorn.teligent.se (datorn.teligent.se [192.168.2.31]) by teligent.se (8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA30555; Tue, 6 May 1997 17:39:58 +0200 Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:38:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Jakob Alvermark To: Doug White cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vic and Quickcam In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA17228 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 May 1997, Doug White wrote: > > Now i have got Vic-2.8, compiled with quickcamsupport.. > > OK, so far so good. Yeah, thought so.. :-) > > I have tested the quickcam with the simple qcamcontrol program and it > > works fine. But when I try to use it in vic, there is no picture. > > If I change the picture size in vic, small/normal back and forth, it > > flashes quickly with one frame, and then go black again. Strange, I > > think. > > You did make sure that the qcam was selected on the device menu? Well, qcam is the only device on the menu, so I think it's selected by default. > > I though it maybe could have something to do with mrouted. I don't know > > how to configure mrouted, anyone could maybe help me with that, if that's > > what causing the problem? > > You need to determine if you: > > a) Have a multicast-supported adapter. run `ifconfig ed0' replacing ed0 > with your network interface. You should see the MULTICAST flag. I see the multicast flag. (Using a NE2000 clone) > b) See if your network requires the use of mbone. Some have been set up > with ``native'' multicast which works without any additional modification. What do you mean by my "network"? And how do you mean require use of mbone? You have to excuse me, I´m new to this. > > And, is there any other program to just view the quickcam? I think the > > first step should be to try something that gets moving pictures from the > > camera. > > I have a program called `xfqcam' which can view the quickcam. I think it > even uses the kernel interface. I don't know, I have the libraries laying > around here too...I have lots of stuff from the qcam I can't use on this > machine anymore....:) Where can I get it? :-) Thanks, Jakob Alvermark ------------------------------------------------------- Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nynäshamn, Sweden Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36 Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57