* From: Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> * Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:24:00 +0200 > Better, try luvcview or guvcview, specialised programmes to just grab > the output of the camera. They also allow to alter the settings, maybe > you can fix things.
Thanks for the tip. The camera is now a Microsoft (R) LifeCam NX-6000 as /dev/video0. >From the description in aptitude, luvcview is the most capable of the two programs. The following is from two cases. The first gives a nice video. The second, where I tried to specify smaller and legitimate video dimensions, gives a segmentation fault. I'm imagining that Skype might work with a smaller resolution. Any suggestions to achieve that without a fault. Thanks, ... Peter E. peter@dalton:~$ luvcview luvcview 0.2.6 SDL information: Video driver: x11 A window manager is available Device information: Device path: /dev/video0 Stream settings: Frame format: MJPG Frame size: 640x480 Frame rate: 30 fps ^C Quit signal received. Cleanup done. Exiting ... peter@dalton:~$ luvcview -s 320x240 luvcview 0.2.6 SDL information: Video driver: x11 A window manager is available Device information: Device path: /dev/video0 Stream settings: Frame format: MJPG Frame size: 320x240 Frame rate: 30 fps Segmentation fault peter@dalton:~$ -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive. Personal pages http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171056912.43820.31377@cantor.invalid
