I'm having here annoying "problem" with my webcamera. Everytime I want to use it as a microphone it needs to be switched manually in sound settings menu. It's not a big deal but I would really rather let it be switched automatically like plug and play or something like that.
I am running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a five year old desktop computer with no problems what-so-ever until that is when i try to use aMSN. The aMSN program is great and problems only arise when i try to configure the audio and webcam. When i open up Preferences -> Edit audio and video settings and try to configure the audio and webcam everything just freezes solid and the only way i can un-freeze the computer is to disconnect the plug from the power connection.
On other occasions when i have again attempted to configure the audio and webcam the whole aMSN program just vanishes off the screen altogether? I have a Logitech QuickCam 8.1.1
i have sony viao vgn-fz11 Can someone please help ,im new user to ubuntu been trying to get webcam working properly at the moment its upside down and does not work in skype at all just get black screen does this look correct? do i have the right driver?i will try and give as much information as i can.
I have a problem making work a webcam. At the begining, after the instalation of 10.04 in a new laptop, the webcam did not work but with a lsusb I see that the webcam was Webcam 5986:0241 acer. I was not able to config neither use the webcam with any application. After lots of test and forums reading I could not do my webcam to work, and now when I do a lsusb my webcam does not appear.
how to find out what driver my webcam is using and where its located the webcam it self works but goes from normal to dark after a minute of use and would like to fix it
I want to use my laptop's built in webcam as remote webcam and I don't want to use FTP and post images to a www and use php script or sth, I want to make it accessed remotely as a fast stream and if there is a way I would like to use it with Windows XP - Microsfot Windows Messenger.
My computer has been running well for a couple of years with Ubuntu and the Gnome desktop. I use a very cheap webcam from PCWorld PC Line 1.3 Mega Pixels with Cheese and Skype which worked on Ubuntu. The new Ubuntu Unity desktop seems most unintuitive and reading that Ubuntu may not include Gnome for the next release is my reason to make the change to Debian. I am aware Ubuntu is a Debian derivative.
I have installed Debian Squeeze and everything is working properly apart from the webcam. When I open Cheese the webcam works but very slowly although it will not capture video. When I open Cheese > Preferences, I see the Device listed as USB 2.0 Camera (/dev/video0) but greyed out. When I open Skype > Options > Video I see the same greyed out listing but no image appears in the test area.
lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62e0 Microdia MSI Starcam Racer Computer: Gigabyte motherboard with onboard video and sound.
Debian Squeeze 64 bit, SPC890NC Philips Webcam, Gnome, Nvidia GT 220, LG 1440x900 Monitor I don't have compiz, etc.
Cheese is distorted, discolored. But XawTV and guvcview work fine. 640x480 Image of webcam is below. I do have Cheese pointing at my webcam and not my Digital TV card.
I recently switched to Linux. I got a Camcorder connected to my machine via firewire that under Win i used as a webcam. So I want the same to work in debian, but honestly i don't know how to do it. The thing i tried was to use a loopback device via v4l2loopback, so what i did exactly is:
1. install v4l2loopback 2. modprobe v4l2loopback 3. feed it via ffmpeg Code: Select allffmpeg -f iec61883 -i auto -f v4l2 /dev/video0this so far works like a charm, i can open the stream via vlc for example if i choose open device and point it to /dev/video0
My problem now is the device detection. For example "Cheese" and the adobe flash plugin doesn't recognize any webcam.
I have a simple "Gigaware USB web cam. I just plugged it in, and it worked fine on Fedora 11. But I can't get it to work for love or money on Debian 5.03.
lsusb shows the device, but I can't get any programs I've tried to actually display anything with it.
Technical details are below. Assume I'm a complete n00b (I pretty much am, when it comes to Debian).
Q: Any idea what "driver" or Debian configuration I might be missing?
Q: Any suggestions on a different program I might try (besides Cheesecam or Camorama)?
Q: Any suggestions as to how I should troubleshoot? code...
I am trying to stream from a webcam to mp4 file with avconv/ffmpeg with the GRBG pixel format. I can find a lot of ffmpeg commands and other stuff on google about a webcam stream to file with ffmpeg, but none of them use GRBG pixel format and are working for me ...
I have never tried something like this before
Output of v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext: Code: Select allioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT     Index    : 0     Type    : Video Capture     Pixel Format: 'GRBG'     Name    : GRBG         Size: Discrete 162x120         Size: Discrete 324x240
I can't make a webcam working on an ARM version of Debian (Raspbian for raspberryPI)
I'm trying to use a command line media player to show the webcam images (mplayer)
The command is: mplayer tv:///dev/video0 and I got this output:
Code: Select allPlaying tv:///dev/video0. the filename option must be an integer: dev/video0 Struct tv, field filename parsing error: dev/video0 Tv file format detected. Selected driver v4l2
[Code] ....
Note aside: - I've tried 3 different cams(got the same error for all of them) - The output of the command: ls -ltr /dev/video* is crw-rw—-+ 1 root video 81, 0 Nov 11 09:06 /dev/video0 - The cam works in a program like "scratch" in a startx session but doesn't in the command line
I'm looking for a USB-connected webcam that works ok with linux and performs well with outdoor lighting.My goal is simple: I want to connect it to my Debian router, point it out of the window and grab frames off the cam and make it available on a web page.I've got the setup working ok with some prehistoric cam, but the image is terrible. (It's a HW issue - the cam. is junk.) So I'd like to get a better cam.I know there are cams built specifically for this usage, but it's above my price range. For me, the most expensive I'm willing to go is the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 for Business (~130 USD in a local store), or preferably cheaper. I don't want/need any sort of enclosure for outdoors, as the cam will be indoors, behind a window.
Also, I wonder how does focusing work with linux. The only webcam I've ever had had a manual focus ring. Some of the cams claim to have autofocus. I guess it's host controlled. That probably doesn't work in Linux. (?) Anyway, for my usage, autofocus would be in the way, I suppose. (I don't want it to try to focus on the sheet of glass in front of the cam. )
I've read a lot and I still can't configure my webcam. I've read about spca 5xx but when I go to and click on the debian package, it takes me to a "No such package" site inside debian's package.debian.orgAny idea how to resolve this? maybe there's another way to have this webcam working. I know there's a way to make a .deb package from a .rpg, would that work in this situation?
Choising an hardware in LINUX is not easy since one has to check before whether it is supported. A large hardware base is supported , but not everything.
Which webcam is sponsored by DEBIAN TESTING that works surely with just a plug and play (skype / camorama...) ?
My logitech quickcam express works fine with gstreamer-properties and cheese, but i need to take webcam pics from console. It worked before the latest upgrade to squeeze, then:
My kernel is kernel 2.6.32-5-686
I don't know what to do... i'd like to run another kernel but i don't know which one..(and how to do that, i'm on remote)
So for Christmas i got a webcam. And i knew it would be a fun challenge to get this webcam to work on a linux box. But i seem to have having way too much trouble. Yes i've tried spca5xx and Ov51x but neither of them seem to work.
I have the webcam model Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 running on my Toshiba Satellite laptop with Debian Sid and kernel 2.6.32.8. I am able to get the program GUCView to work without any problems, but I can not get my webcam to work with either aMSN or Skype (2.1 Beta for Linux). I don't know what to do next, or what my options are at this time. All of my friends/family use MSN and/or Skype with MS Windows or Mac. I am able to get sound/voice to work but no visuals.
Im trying to connect my webcam (Trust 16175) to a Debian 5 box:
Installed:
And with no luck - as I see it the correct driver is not loaded - Using "modprobe gspca" makes no different. I have seen in some papers that the 093a:2621 is supported by gspca. How do I get it to work?
What codecs/drivers/whatever do I need to get sound working on my debian 64bit install? I can play video files, but they have no sound. In fact the only sound my computer will produce at all is the system beep.
So I used the latest Debian Net Install I think its Lenny not sure. While installing I set the taskel to basic system no desktop environment after it asks to remove the disc I follow up with. apt-get install xorg xterm wdm fluxbox. Then I download Mplayer which works in the video category but has no sound.
Question that I want to know is how do I enable sound.
I installed debian onto a flashdrive via unetbootin. Everything else seems to work find but I just can't seem to get my sound to work at all. I installed alsa-utils and the correct modules appear to be loaded accoring to lspci.I turned up the volume in alsamixer and tried okaying a wav with aplay and I alsa tried speaker-test and I can't get anything to come out of my speakers at all. Here is my lsmod and lspci.
Module Size Used by acpi_cpufreq 4951 0 cpufreq_conservative 4018 0
I get picture through the hdmi connection of my Radeon HD 4670 card, but when I tell the system to use the audio not only do I not get anything it also speeds up any video currently playing.