On 6/26/20 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for machine. > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. > It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. > > From dmesg: > [598961.717093] usb 1-12.4.4.4: new high-speed USB device number 18 using > xhci_hcd > [598961.869828] usb 1-12.4.4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=1bcf, > idProduct=284c > [598961.869837] usb 1-12.4.4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=3 > [598961.869844] usb 1-12.4.4.4: Product: SPCA2650 AV Camera > [598961.869848] usb 1-12.4.4.4: Manufacturer: SunplusIT Inc > [598961.869852] usb 1-12.4.4.4: SerialNumber: 01.00.00 > [598961.954556] media: Linux media interface: v0.10 > [598961.973982] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > [598961.999017] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device SPCA2650 AV Camera (1bcf:284c) > [598962.015747] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 4 > was not initialized! > [598962.015756] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 3 > was not initialized! > [598962.015760] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 2 > was not initialized! > [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was > not initialized! > [598962.015987] input: SPCA2650 AV Camera as > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-12/1-12.4/1-12.4.4/1-12.4.4.4/1-12.4.4.4:1.0/input/input20 > [598962.016163] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo > > Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera needs? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett >
Hi Gene, try to use your camera with mpv player. Just use something like this: $ mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0 My camera works just fine with Skype, Zoom and Hangouts but it doesn't work with VLC. Kind regards Georgi