Hi Filippo,

On Monday 17 November 2008, Filippo Argiolas wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> A couple of users reported me a little issue with Cheese after
> upgrading uvcvideo to the last changeset (62c88b326ecd).
> As soon as they start cheese they get this error:
>
> libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error
> parsing JPEG header: Not a JPG file ?
>
> It only happens once and doesn't seem anything fatal since cheese runs
> fine with no noticeable issue.
> Both users have a dell xps (m13xx?) with a " 05a9:2640 OmniVision
> Technologies, Inc." webcam.
> I forwarded their mails to Hans de Goede, thinking it may be something
> related to libv4l, but he said, and I believe he's right, it probably
> is a driver or an hardware fault.
> He said that most likely the first frame sent by the webcam doesn't
> have a valid jpeg header, maybe because it starts sending in the
> middle of  a frame.
> Any idea about it?

That would be my guess too. Would it be possible to dump the first frame to a 
file for analysis ?

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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