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cheese package

  1. Bug #282473
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 282473

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Valerio De Carolis (vdecarolis) wrote : Re: cheese doesn't work with my webcam (Philips PCVC740K ToUcam Pro)

@bojo42,
i have some different experience with the V4L2, pwc and the logitech quickcam pro...I'm using the 8.10 Ibex release for x86_64 architectures.

Running VLC with these parameters will produce the right output (the webcam video etc etc):
v4l2:// :v4l2-dev=/dev/video0 :v4l2-adev= :v4l2-standard=0 :v4l2-dev="/dev/video0" :v4l2-width=640 :v4l2-height=480 :v4l2-fps=30

So I think VLC is capable to use v4l2 correctly (probably VLC doesn't invoke it through gstreamer as the other apps like cheese, skype do???).

However under Hardy (x86_64 version) the webcam worked well with Skype.

Any ideas? ;)