[Gllug] Webcam for 20 quid

[Ian Norton]

hi dave,

i dont think its that, the driver reports not being able to recieve data from
the camera.


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:15:18PM +0000, David Irvine wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 22:42, Ian Norton wrote:
> > i have one of thise dexxa cameras, dont work for me, driver compiles but i get
> > no pics, (yes it insmods ok and finds the cam)
> > 
> 
> If you get black screen, or fuzzy images, then try using a different v4l
> application, xawtv works for me, some programs don't do something to the
> device which it needs in order to demunge the picture or something like
> that, I have problems  with a cpia based camera - when i use webcam
> software which grabs still frames and not a stream, or certain
> applications which are generic v4l programs i just get rubbish, it may
> have  something to do with the brg->rgb conversion which gets done along
> the way too, anyway my advice try some other applications to view the
> image, as it seems to be a problem with my camera, it may also be  one 
> with yours.
> 
> HTH
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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