Hi,
I'm trying to get a USB Philips webcam working with either xawtv, webcam,
and ultimately gnomemeeting. And I'm not having alot of luck.
I can load the pwc module, and syslog shows the camera being detected.
I can do xawtv -hwscan, and xawtv sees /dev/video0, name : Philips 675 webcam
I can also load the philips decompression module (pwcx), which supposedly
gains me access to add'l palettes, sizes, and frame rates.
All this w/ kernel 2.4.6-2smp.
Now, the list of problems:
xawtv
xawtv complains:
no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
The driver has potential sizes of 128x96, 160x120, 176x144,
320x240, 352x288 and 640x480. 384x288 is not among them, and
I cannot see how to tell xawtv to settle for one of the sizes
that the camera can deliver. There might be an add'l problem
after this though. see webcam.
webcam
When I run webcam, I get the message:
can't get rgb24 data
Well, it turns out that the default palettes available when you
load the module are: yuv420, yuv420p - addl pallets, including
rgb24 are only available once the decompressor is loaded, and
apparently need to be selected via an ioctl. but I cannot locate
a utility that will send this ioctl to the driver.
gnomemeeting
gnomemeeting simply refuses to see the video device. No idea what's
going on yet, but I'm suspecting it might be related to the fact that
neither xawtv and/or webcam will work w/ this webcam.
Question: has anyone successfully gotten a philips webcam to work w/ ANY of
the above applications ?
thanks, and rgds,
-Greg
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