Although my webcam is identified. I cant get my webcam to work. gstreamer-properties complains - Video for Linux 2 (v4l2): Cannot identify device '/dev/video0' when testing. I have installed packages suggested by sticky.
View 1 RepliesI have a TV Card and a webcam connected to my computer. I've noticed that after a restart the TV Card capture device is /dev/video1 (while other times it's /dev/video0). When the device changes I have to update my tvtime.xml, which is a hassle.How can I force the capture device to be /dev/video0 and the webcam to /dev/video1?
View 2 Replies View RelatedLast week my uncle gave me a Logitech webcam (According to lsusb: Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Ultra Vision). It works fine in my 32 bit Debian install but in my 64 bit install, nothing works with it. Heres the issues I get:
Skype: Simply will not use it but can detect it
Cheese: Segmentation faults immediately
eViacam: Can't detect it
VLC: Detects it and can use it but almost everything is completely gray
v4lucp: Gets several errors relating to things like color, brightness, contrast, etc
I have just about everything related to v4l and v4l2 installed, including 32 bit libraries. Why is this webcam so "defective" in 64 bit if its actually listed as /dev/video0?
My webcam is detected under lsusb, but no /dev/video0 shows up. How do I get one?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI downloaded camE and camorama in hope of controling my webcam's framerate for skype because right now it's 24-30 which gives me dark video. But if I lower the frame rate to something like 10, the video magically brightens. camE doesn't do anything..like it turns on my webcam and does some ftp..fails..turns of my webcam ..back to normal. Camorama can't connect to my webcame. Cheese, guvideo are successfully able to conect to my webcam and play around with it.What I want to do is edit my /dev/video0 or some file from where I can fix the framerate for skype.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a 'Gadget Geek VHS to DVD maker' USB device that takes analogue video in (composite) and plugs into the computer via USB.
Here is the output of lsuss (it's the eMPIA one):
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Now this is essentially as far as I get, DBUS just says the following when I plug it in:
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What I want to be able to do is open the (theoretical) output stream it produces in vlc and record it from there. Then I run into my next issue. There is no video* folder or link or file in my /dev directory and I can't stream video directly from the appropriate 'special file' inside /dev/bus/usb/00*/00*
My machine is ubuntu 10.4 64-bit
Seemingly at random when I reboot my PC which I do every now and then, when I get it back up and running it will sometimes have switched my video card from using /dev/video1 to /dev/video0 or vice versa. It's not a huge deal but it is slightly annoying and I would like to understand why it does it and how I can stop it from flip flopping.
Not sure what you need to know in order to answer but I use 9.10, gnome 2.28.1, the video card is a Hauppauge 150 PVR something.
Running Lucid - was an LTS upgrade from 8.04.
I have a usb webcam (off brand). When installed, /dev/video0 is properly created and I can access the webcam through cheese as a regular user.
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crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2010-12-31 16:00 /dev/video0
The regular user is already a member of the video group, and I have checked all permissions under System->Admin->User/Groups->Advanced.
However, when as this regular user, I go to a website that tries to access my webcam via flash (ie, chatroulette or omegle), it does not detect the cam. (Firefox 3.6.13 with Flash 10)
I've already set the LD_PRELOAD as suggested elsewhere.
HOWEVER, if I LD_PRELOAD and run Firefox as root, all works fine and the flash plugin sees the webcam.
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I have 3 old video capture cards which I would like to use for CCTV. Each card supports 1 camera. So I would like to have 3 cameras setup in the end and monitor them with zoneminder. When each card is plugged in on it's own, it works fine. Video comes through clearly with xawtv and zoneminder. However as soon as I plug in a 2nd card (with or without a camera connected) the output in xawtv and zoneminder goes haywire. It looks like the 2nd card takes over the first card, resulting in majority of the picture coming from the 2nd card, and some (if any) from the 1st card. When viewing either of the two cards /dev/video0 or /dev/video1 in xawtv the output is identical. I've tried this on a fresh 10.04 Ubuntu install, and on an older MythTV debian computer, the same results. Here are lspci -vv outputs with 2 combinations of cards (same fuzzy output):
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My thoughts are because the capture cards are cheap (similar to winmodems), the problem may be in the software kernel modules not allowing room for other similar capture cards to run at the same time. Can anyone suggest me in the right direction? Do I need to setup some sort of memory allocation for each card manually? Something in the BIOS? An extra option when the card modules are loaded?
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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having trouble using my new HP Web-Cam I bought from at a local Wall-Mart, All I did was just hook it up to my computer and it will not work under my operating system which is OpenSUSE 11.1. I tried finding if it detected it by looking at the hardware information and I did not see it listed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan anyone point me in the right direction ?
I'm looking for electrical cad software similar to AutoCAD Electrical or PCSchematic Automation. I need something to do WIRING diagrams as apposed to circuit schematics like Egal. Electrical not Electronic. I'm talking about power distribution, fuses, relays, PLCs, motors, solenoids, switches, buttons, and cables. I am not talking about transistors, capacitors, integrated circuits, and printed circuit boards. Sorry to put such a fine point on it, but there are a lot of PC board design tools out there that use the word "electrical" in their description, but are not useful for diagramming the wiring connections in a machine.
I think an electrical cad program should have the following features in order of importance code...
Here is an example of the sort of thing, but wiring diagrams can represent an entire factory, documents with hundreds of pages.
I have an Encore Electronics 802.11g Wireless LAN Adapter installed on a secondary desktop. When I was running Windows XP the wireless signal was strong and did not disconnect. When I installed Ubuntu the wireless signal is weak and it will not stay connected. Would there be a driver for Ubuntu to work better?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to get my resolution to match the resolution I use in Windows 7 which is 1768 x 992 (50hz) Nvidia Geforce 210, LG Electronics 37LF75 - At the moment the top and bottom are both missing off the screen. Everytime I try to adjust my xorg.conf file it hangs at boot. Not really sure what exactly I'm doing with it.
xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 260.19.06 (buildd@yellow) Mon Oct 4 15:59:51 UTC 2010
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 260.19.06 (buildmeister@builder101) Mon Sep 13 04:59:45 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
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just find this mini keyboard,and wondering whether it is interesting to use. I have ever think of getting a remote to control all electronics,but this keyboard can give a total control,Is it similar to remote?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to get my system up and running with motion (motion detection software).
After a reboot I have the video device /dev/video0
But then when I start the daemon
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sudo /etc/init.d/motion start
is says [ OK ]
but now the devide /dev/video0 is no longer there and motion won't start up.
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Failed to open video device /dev/video0: No such file or directory
The only way to get the video0 device back is rebooting.
I am trying to install verlog software for my electronics programming. I downloaded its tar.gz file and started installing it. everything was file till configure & make but while final installing using make install I got the following error as cannot create directory.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer Laptop with a built-in Crystal Eye webcamwhich works (tested it with luvcview).The camera is represented by /dev/video0.I would like to read data from this device, but i don't manage to do it.
This code Code: #include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
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i just installed a new wireless device from encore electronics(802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter ENLWI-G2) but it deadlocks openSUSE 11.2 when i start the networking module in YaST. It also deadlocks(Freezes up) when i tried reinstalling suse. can someone help me, has anyone got this device to work? I also tried Fedora 12... it manages to see my wlan and posts the mac address of the card.. but it also locks up while trying to use it or configure it
View 9 Replies View RelatedMencoder has not a support for my webcam.
However "
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" works flawlessly well.
So option dumpfile in man page is there to help us!
But well the command
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results in a 0kylobytes files.
How to force mplayer to dump file -tv flow data to file?
I have a budget of around $150AUD or ~$126USD - what would you recommend as being the best webcam for that budget that is fully compliant with Ubuntu 10.04 64bit?
I'm only looking to skype and do some basic video tutorials,
I am a recent convert to Ubuntu 10.10 from Vista. I work from home and do all of my work via remote login and video conferencing through Skype. In Vista, I could use my DV Camcorder as a webcam which, in turn, gave me video for Skype. In Vista, I used a program call "Tracker Cam" which I could run, and then it would act like a video driver for Skype and presto, I had perfect video in Skype.
Now that I am in Ubuntu, I am trying to achieve the same thing. I can hook up my DV Camcorder (A Sony Handycam HDR-HC5) and see the live video through Kino. However, this doesn't help me with Skype. I still can't enable video, or select a video device in Skype. I have Googled this up and down with no leads.
So, I am wondering if anyone has done this with Skype (or other programs) to get their DV Camcorders acting like webcams for video calls or is this just one of those things that won't work in Ubuntu?
i have been using a webcam on my netbook in ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix. it seems to not detect the camera after a while and i have to reboot to get it to work again. is there anyway that i can restart the driver or something without rebooting the netbook?
View 1 Replies View Relatedpurchased a webcam to record videos with in Ubuntu. I plugged it into the USB slot (and audio into the mic hole) and it seems to work ok. But I'd like to record a video from it and save it to a file. How can this be done?I tried Cheese and no audio was recorded.I tried GUVCView and it was fine except for slow video & audio delay.I can't find any other programs for recording webcams on Linux.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow do I install a webcam? I have an usb Logitech Quickcam The program Cheese looks for a camera in "/dev/video0" but it is greyed-out
"lsusb" shows the following:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:08f6 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Messenger Plus
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How do I install the webcam so that it is recognized by programs? I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome 2.30.0
I'm using Wubi to dual boot 9.10 off windows xp. I have been having very good luck figuring things out using this ubuntu forum, which I am more grateful for than any of you could ever imagine, But I have a webcam issue I just can't figure out. Heres my question. I just recently bought a VERY cheap usb webcam from a company named HDE. There doesn't seem to be a specific name or even model number for this webcam, but here is the web page of the webcam I bought, http://www.hdeshop.com/USB-3-LED-PC-...B0015TJNEY.htm The website only provides drivers for windows vista and windows xp, but I figured there might be a chance or possibility that I could force this webcam to work on ubuntu 9.10. I plugged in the webcam and it did show up in skype, but the picture is all green and there is a double of me.
Plus, the actual webcam device will not show up in skype, I can't select the webcam, but regardless it still shows a green double vision image when I test it or do a video call.Skype seems to be the only thing this webcam kind of works with, It will not work with Cheese though and doesn't show an image in gstreamer. I want to mention that when I go to Cheese Preferences there is a webcam device that appears and sayse "USB 2.0 Camera (/dev/video0)" but I can't select it. I'm not sure what to do about this or how to fix it? I've searched around the internet and read the ubuntu documentation on webcams but really haven't had any luck for my specific webcam. I would just like the webcam to be detected by ubuntu 9.10, to work properly in skype, and work in cheese so I can record video's.
I just recently bought a VERY cheap usb webcam from a company named HDE. There doesn't seem to be a specific name or even model number for this webcam, but here is the web page of the webcam I bought, http://www.hdeshop.com/USB-3-LED-PC-...B0015TJNEY.htm The website only provides drivers for windows vista and windows xp, but I figured there might be a chance or possibility that I could force this webcam to work on ubuntu 9.10.
I plugged in the webcam and it did show up in skype, but the picture is all green and there is a double of me. Plus, the actual webcam device will not show up in skype, I can't select the webcam, but regardless it still shows a green double vision image when I test it or do a video call. Skype seems to be the only thing this webcam kind of works with, It will not work with Cheese though and doesn't show an image in gstreamer. I want to mention that when I go to Cheese Preferences there is a webcam device that appears and sayse "USB 2.0 Camera (/dev/video0)" but I can't select it. I'm not sure what to do about this or how to fix it? I've searched around the internet and read the ubuntu documentation on webcams but really haven't had any luck for my specific webcam. I would just like the webcam to be detected by ubuntu 9.10, to work properly in skype, and work in cheese so I can record video's.
I read that it is possible to use the iPhone as a webcam on OS X, but i wanted to know if it is possible on linux?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi have camera webcam on my laptop..but it didn't work.
how to install correctly with the right step?