Hi all,
I have a Creative Optia webcam which my F9 system recognizes as a uvc device:
Code:
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Live! Cam Optia (041e:4057)
It works fine with Skype.
Now I'd like to set it up to upload images periodically to my web server. The xawtv 'webcam' utility looks ideal. I created ~/.webcamrc as indicated in the man page. After some experimenting (ie, running "v4lctl list"), I found these two settings avoid a syntax error:
Code:
[...]
input = Camera 1
#norm = pal
[...]
but I still get an ugly error message:
Code:
$ webcam
reading config file: /home/krop/.webcamrc
video4linux webcam v1.5 - (c) 1998-2002 Gerd Knorr
grabber config:
size 320x240 [16 bit YUV 4:2:2 (packed, YUYV)]
input Camera 1, norm (null), jpeg quality 75
rotate=0, top=0, left=0, bottom=240, right=320
write config [ftp]:
local transfer ~/Desktop/uploading.jpeg => ~/Desktop/webcam.jpeg
ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0 [];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.seconds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0;memory=unknown): Invalid argument
capturing image failed
Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong here?
Alternately, does anyone know of a command-line utility which does work with uvcvideo devices like this Optia?
Thanks