Webcam setup questions
Hello Slackers! Is there a native slackware64-13.37, Xfce usb webcam viewer?
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:~#dmesg Clicked on Xsane- (no i don't have a scanner), but USB Dual-Mode Camera appeared in across 'Xsane's title bar'. So I searched /usr/bin till I found xcam - with no useful documentation to configure or use it; Just fired it up. Xcam Device Options show up as "v4l:/dev/video0". For xcam to capture images you must keep pressing play button?? Think xcam is part of Xsane making webcam function as a camera? But fps & av display on bottom of xcam boarder? Need clarification & suggestions for webcam viewer. Do I need 32bit lib to make use of v4l2 utilities? Documentation in slackware forum & google for webcam setup refer to drivers & modules that are comparatively old to newer OS lib versions. More of a headache trying to piece info across linux platforms. Is v4l2 backward compatible? Thank you |
Im not a slackware user, so I cant speak Slack specific.
But cheese and camorama are two webcam viewers. I got them both to work with 64bit v4l. But IIRC i had to install the 32bit v4l libraries in order to get skype to install on Fedora 15. |
guvcview (http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/)
I maintain a SBo package for this http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...edia/guvcview/ |
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Thank you, Willsyr you SBo include dependencies? lol guvciew looks good.
Anyone look at Xcam? Question: if get error message:"Webcam could not open invalid argument". Is there a config file for these drivers and modules that can be tweaked?? Where are they in slackware? Something like: Code:
~:$cd /sys/module/gspca/parameters |
alternatively you could use
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mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:device=/dev/video0 -really-quiet |
You can also try wxcam.
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I installed the guvcview Slackbuild today (32-bit Dell 1545n). For it to compile, I had first to install the portaudio SlackBuild.
Then it worked like a charm. (Aside: Thanks, willysr.) |
Martinus2, i don't have v4l2. So I will build ffmpeg because it will satisfy dependencies for multiple multimedia apps. Just one question - Alien has the latest ffmpeg-0.8.6 while SlackBuilds.org has ffmpeg-0.6.1. Downloaded all the dependencies from .SlackBuild but am wondering if I can use the latest ver. ffmpeg. Seems there were many bug fixes and security fixes? Alien's and SlackBuilds' dependencies appear the same except slackbuilds have added patches - I think. In any case thank you. Have to take closer look at the build scripts.
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Can I use Alien's latest ffmpeg-0.8.6 + source with SlackBuilds.org ffmpeg-0.6.1 build script and dependency packages?
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