Re: 046d:08d9 - works with gspca-modules but not 2.6.27-rc3

Jean-Francois Moine <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:36:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.spca50x.devel
Message-ID <1220265385.1753.30.camel@localhost>
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 20:12 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote, on 2008-09-01 16:51:
> > Don't use vlc to access webcams, vlc's webcam support is from the stoneage.
> > 
> If it's too much trouble building vlc with libv4l on Debian, I might 
> just install something else like ekiga to verify the web-cam operation.

Hi Arthur,

I am on Debian and I have no problem using vlc with the v4l library. 

But, with JPEG frames as you have, mplayer works without any library.
Just don't forget to use 'v4l2:' instead of 'v4l:' ;)

Cheers.

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Jef             |               http://moinejf.free.fr/



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