Actually, now that I've updated to snv_96 on my EeePC 900, the webcam works out of the box. Didn't install anything special to get it to work. Just started Ekiga
Way to go! Now I wish the audiohd driver worked as well without having to get OSS... Gilles. Karl Dalen wrote: > Hi, > > The usbvc driver version included in 2008.05 did > not work with the built-in webcam in Eee PC 900. > With the help from Lei Chen in the USB team I > tested a new experimental debug version of usbvc and > this version worked fine with the EeePC webcam. > > According to Lei Chen, this new usbvc is included > in nv96 so use this newest usbvc, (SUNWusbvc) if > you need the webcam to work. I have tried it with the > Ekiga video conference software that comes with the > 2008.05 install and I managed to get video conferencing > beween the Eee PC and my U20 through wireless router > and my LAN to work fine using h323:<IP> calls. > > Next step, is to try over the internet. Need to figure out what > port forwarding is needed in the router and if using STUN server > works. Anyone used Ekiga for external video conferencing? > > The EeePC webcam supports only YUY format and not > the compressed MJPEG. I had some issues with my > yuyv conversion in my own capture software I have been > using for a logitech quickcam 9000 pro on my workstation, > apparantly there were some differences. There is also a bug > related to the YUYV format sometimes returning garbage bytes > at the end of a line, CR6739228 > > So far, I have captured up to 640x420 resolution successfully in YUYV. > Checking the capability of this EeePC webcam gives: > > Driver: usbvc > Card: CNF7129 > Bus Info: usb > Version: 1 > Capabilities: > Video capture support: Yes > Video output support: No > Video overlay support: No > RAW VBI capture support: No > RAW VBI output support: No > Sliced VBI capture support: No > Sliced VBI capture support: No > RDS capture support: No > Device has a tuner: No > Audio support: No > Device has radio support: No > Supports read/write system calls: Yes > Supports async i/o: No > Supports streaming: Yes > Discovering supported video formats: > VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT(0) > index :0 > type :1 > flags :0 > description :YUYV > pixelformat :1448695129 > VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT(1) > index :1 > type :1 > flags :0 > description :YUYV > pixelformat :1448695129 > Enumerate CTRL (VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL): > > Regards, > > /KarlD > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Discover the new Windows Vista Learn more! > <http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > eeepc-discuss mailing list > eeepc-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/eeepc-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/eeepc-discuss/attachments/20080909/59bb31cb/attachment.html>
