On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 12:47 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:43 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> Interesting. To answer your question, I have no idea off the top of my > >> head. I do have what seems to be a similar camera. It is > >> > >> Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0979:0371 Jeilin Technology Corp., Ltd > >> > >> and the rest of the lsusb output looks quite similar. I do not know, > >> though, if it has any chance of working as a webcam. Somehow, the thought > >> never occurred to me back when I got the thing. I would have to hunt some > >> stuff down even to know if it is claimed to work as a webcam. > > > > The packaging that mine came in claims "3-in-1": > > > > digital video camcorder (with microphone) > > digital camera > > web cam > > > > > >> You did say that it comes up as a different USB device when it is a > >> webcam? You mean, a different product ID or so? > > > > Yes > > > > Look for this in the original lsusb output I provided > > : > >>> Webcam mode: > >>> > >>> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0979:0280 Jeilin Technology Corp., Ltd > >>> Device Descriptor: > > Oops, right you are. Blame it on my old eyes. They are the same age as the > rest of me, but sometimes they feel older. > > Another thing I could not see in front of me when I looked at my Jeilin > Mass Storage camera, was what is written on it. It says there it is a > Cobra DMC300, and it says > > "Digital Video & Camera" > > I never paid any attention to that before, because for years my priorities > were still cameras. But now, just in case I have lost the driver CD, I > went out to Google and found what claims to be a driver for it. I hope > that, with such a long idleness just sitting on a back corner of the desk, > the battery has not died in the camera. If I get some time in the next few > days to try to fight Windows, I will make some logs of my own. Then we can > compare notes and see if the two cameras are similar, or not. What I am > hoping for, obviously, is that both cameras are downloading JPEG frames, > and use similar methods to do that. If that is true (we don't know that, > of course) then the only problem I can imagine is that both of them are > reported, even in webcam mode, as Mass Storage Bulk Transport devices. If > so, then the camera(s) would need to be blacklisted by mass-storage when > set up as webcams. > > Now that I got the supposed driver, I should go out on the web and get the > supposed manual for my camera. Then perhaps I can know how it is supposed > to be used as a webcam and get the needed sniffs. Meanwhile, I hope that > you will do the same.
OK. I have two steps to take: 1. Installing the driver and software on my sole remaining Windows machine. It already has snoopy. 2. Getting the camera away from my daughter for more than 2 minutes. It's like the thing is glued to her hand. :) Regards, Andy > Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
