On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:32:03 +0100
Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Celejar,
> 
> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 00:12:27 Celejar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a cheap, no-name webcam from FocalPoint.com.  Video seems to
> > basically work (tried with xawtv and mplayer), but with banding
> > (regularly spaced bluish horizontal bands that seem to move vertically
> > upward, taking about a second or two to travel from the bottom of the
> > image to the top).
> 
> That's usually caused by a mismatch between the power supply frequency and 
> the 
> sensor sampling rate. Have you tried in plain daylight ?

I haven't.  By power supply, do you mean the power that supplies the
room lighting?

> > Haven't tried sound since the short lengths of the USB and mic cables and
> > the location of my machine's ports make plugging both in simultaneously
> > difficult or impossible.
> > 
> > Thanks for your work on this project!
> 
> You're welcome. Thanks for the report. I'll update the supported devices list 
> as soon as Berlios become responsive again.

Thanks again.

> As stated by the log, you should connect the camera to a high speed hub :-) 
> Your hub is probably running at full speed only (12 Mb/s), and the camera 
> seems to require high speed (480 Mb/s).

Makes sense - this is a cheap, no-name hub bought on Ebay.  OTOH, I'm
looking at it now and it has a sticker on it proclaiming "480 Mbps";
have I been cheated?

In any event, the notion that "high speed" is faster than "full speed"
always confuses me ;)

Celejar
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