Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:43:55 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATTENTION WEBCAM USERS: Say cheese! Message-ID: <478E88AB.60906@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <478BB33F.3000506@FreeBSD.org> <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com>
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-----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. 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-----
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