[SOLVED] Is there any software for Eeepc to take a video with on-board webcam?

I am using Eeepc 1000h with Slackware 13.1.
I have found many threads talking about turning on/off the webcam on Eeepc, but only one gives a rather complicated way to take a picture(whose quality, according to the author of the thread, is quite unpredictable).
There is a built-in 'digital camera' program of KDE to add cameras, in that way, perhaps one can control the camera to take a picture or a video, but I I don't know if the on-board webcam is among the list.
One can use the camera when using Skype, but basically I want use the camera off-line.

So the questions: is there any tool for Slackware to control the Eeepc webcam (as in Windows)?
Any ideas? Thanks!

There are a lot of digital video programs for webcams.
Camerama, Cheese?

The built-in didgtal camera app is for getting photos off cameras with a usb interface, not for controlling them.

Hi,

I've had very good result using GUVCView (get it from SlackBuild.org) on Slackware 13. Haven't installed it yet on my newly installed Slackware64 13.1 multilib yet. There's also wxcam which provides what you need (also available at SlackBuild.org).

Kind regards,

Eric

I am also looking for the same information. if anyone have please share with me. thanks

You can also use VLC (Eric Hameleers provides a package for Slackware, which you can get from here). There's some info on using VLC to save output from a webcam here, but some things will need to be adapted, because I think the version of VLC that Eric packaged is different to that used in that post.

Originally Posted by jenny20 I am also looking for the same information. if anyone have please share with me. thanks

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Kind regards,

Eric

Thanks for all your advice!
EricTRA, I have tried GUVCView. However when I install ffmpeg, which is required by the former, I got a 'faad test failed' error. After installing faad2, the errors is still there.

I am trying VLC as Nylex suggested, but still I would like to know what the problem is...

Hello,

You'll need to install the other dependencies too. If I recall correct I had to install libsndfile, portaudio and twolame too in order to get it to work properly.

Kind regards,

Eric

To test my webcam using ffmpeg, I run this at the command line to create a short 5 second clip called output.mpg.

ffmpeg -t 5 -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 output.mpg

Installing VLC is a terrible experience... or (I hope) I did it in a wrong way, because my 'wget' is still busying downloading the numerous libraries in
http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/s...ilds/vlc/build

Without posting a new thread, anyone can tell me how to install something with 'packages'? E.g., VLC has another version(?):
http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/vlc/pkg/
The file list is much more shorter! But how to use it to install VLC? My only experience with pkg is when upgrading slackware(which turned out to be a tragedy... anyway, it's in the past). Thanks!

Download the prebuilt package 'vlc-1.1.0.rc-i486-2alien.txz'.
As root, 'upgradepkg --install-new vlc-1.1.0.rc-i486-2alien.txz'
Enjoy!

'installpkg vlc-1.1.0.rc-i486-2alien.txz' would also work, but 'upgradepkg' deletes any previous versions.
If you are good, you would also do an md5sum check for download integrity.

Originally Posted by seflyer I am trying VLC as Nylex suggested, but still I would like to know what the problem is...

What problem?

Originally Posted by Nylex What problem?

Hi Nylex, it was my fault, I meant the former problem with the 'faad test failed' thing.
BUT, I do have a problem about VLC now...
I have installed VLC (with the help of allend), but the 'video' menu in VLC is in grey. It seems that the camera is not recognized. I thought I have turned the camera on by typing in terminal
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera

Have you tried VLC on eeepc, Nylex? Or anyone here did? Are there any further configurations needed?

Perhaps you would benefit from a look at this thread, in particular this post and the next.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post3848623

Im not sure about the new version of vlc but in 1.0.2
in the media menu there is open capture device.
Once there it is as easy as putting in your video device, probably/dev/video0.