Thanks, Jochen - Brian. Yeah, something problematic with gstreamer and/or libv4l in the 64bit version sounds more possible.
In my case, only MPlayer can show webcam images. Neither cheese nor skype can do the same despite detecting the name of the webcam. Other webcam applications say NO, either. I also notice a strange thing which I suppose a problem, i.e: after my laptop restarts, Kernel 2.6.28-11 does not remember the microdia installation and configurations whilst Kernel 2.6.27-7 does. Anyway, now I have to boot into Kernel 2.6.27-7 to use my webcam with... a little reluctance :-) But you guys here have done a great job. IOU 4 that. Cheers, On May 3, 7:47 pm, Brian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes cheese uses gstreamer for its v4l interface, so yeah the issue is > propably not directly related to cheese but either gstreamer or > libv4l. It also appears it may be 64bit related somehow since i have > had reports of our driver working just fine using cheese on jaunty but > i think the person was using 32bit rather then 64bit > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jochen Kemnade <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > vubuntu schrieb: > >> Or it could be that of Cheese which can't catch up with new video > >> stream in Jaunty. > > > I don't think this is a cheese problem (Uh, that sounds strange...). I > > think, it is more likely to be related to gstreamer. AFAICT, cheese uses > > gstreamer to acquire the image, which would also explain, why the webcam > > works for example in skype, ekiga and mplayer which do not seem to use a > > gstreamer-based backend. > > Also, the video input preview in gstreamer-properties fails to show the > > image from the webcam but only displays an error message saying "Video > > for Linux 2 (v4l2): Could not negotiate format" > > > Regards, > > Jochen > > -- > > Jochen Kemnade > > [email protected] > > PGP: 0xb5cb0a3f --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Lets make microdia webcams plug'n play, (currently plug'n pray) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Visit us online https://groups.google.com/group/microdia -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
