On 01/12/2009, at 6:26 AM, Christoph Willing wrote: > > On 01/12/2009, at 12:07 AM, Philippe d'Anfray wrote: > >> Bonjour >> >> I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on our "AG-machine" and since I cannot use >> our >> Logitech webcam(s) with VIC I just get scrambled pictures (and going >> throuht >> the various menu settings does not help) >> >> ** VIC works perfectly well with other cameras (we have a Falcon >> quattro >> card). >> >> ** Logitech webcams seems to work fine with some other softwares >> (e.g. gstreamer-properties, xawtv, ekiga...) >> >> I have the same problem with my laptop on which I just installed >> Ubuntu >> 9.10. I can't find any error message >> in the logs, is this a driver problem under Ubuntu 9.10 ? Has >> someone >> noticed the same behaviour ?? > > > Philipe, > > Logitech cameras have not always been well supported under Linux - > some just don't work. Since your camera works with other > applications it appears that this particular LOgitech camera should > work with vic. > > However the image you sent looks like an untuned TV input which > isn't possible from a Logitech camera. Do you have any other video > capture cards installed at the same time? Its as if vic is running > with some other device which has a tuner, not the Logitech camera > i.e. the Logitech has been undetected by vic, which has instead > detected some other capture device (which has a tuner). > > Have you checked the "If you already have a camera" section at: > > http://www.quickcamteam.net/documentation/faq/does-my-logitech-webcam-work-on-linux
The latest vic from svn has just been pushed to the UQVislab repository - perhaps that will help. Its difficult to debug without access to the same camera. chris Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
